Monitoring snow cover variability in an agropastoral area in the Trans Himalayan region of Nepal using MODIS data with improved cloud removal methodology

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1234-1246

  Paudel, Keshav Prasad ^a   Andersen, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cloud removal method; Cryosphere; Himalaya; MODIS snow data; Snow cover variability; Zonal snow cycle; Zonal snowline

Indexed keywords

CLOUD REMOVAL; CRYOSPHERE; HIMALAYA; MODIS SNOW DATA; SNOW COVER VARIABILITY; SNOWLINE; ZONAL SNOW CYCLE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MONITORING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TELEVISION SYSTEMS;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; CRYOSPHERE; MODIS; PASTORALISM; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EID: 79952069549     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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