A comparison of optical-band based snow extent products during spring over North America

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1940-1948

  Frei, Allan ^a,b   Lee, ShihYan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

IMS; MODIS; North America; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHMS; LAND SURFACE; MAPPING SYSTEMS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTI SENSOR; NORTH AMERICAN; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PROJECTION ERROR; REANALYSIS; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGES; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEASONAL SNOW COVER; SNOW AND ICE; SNOW COVERS; SNOW EXTENTS; TERRA SATELLITES; TIME-SCALES; TWO-PRODUCT; VISIBLE BAND; WEATHER FORECASTING MODEL;

ABLATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; NASA; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SNOW;

ABLATION; ALGORITHM; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; LAND SURFACE; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; PARAMETERIZATION; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; TIMESCALE; TUNDRA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77954816889     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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