Evaluating the utility of the ANSA blended snow cover product in the mountains of eastern Turkey

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3727-3744

  Akyurek, Zuhal ^a,b   Hall, Dorothy K ^b   Riggs, George A ^b   Sensoy, Aynur ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED DEVICES; MAPPING; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SPACE FLIGHT;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EOS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; SNOW COVER DEPLETION CURVES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

SNOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; MAPPING METHOD; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MODIS; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

TURKEY;

EID: 77955134968     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.483484     Document Type: Article

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