A blended global snow product using visible, passive microwave and scatterometer satellite data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1371-1395

  Foster, James L ^a   Hall, Dorothy K ^a   Eylander, John B ^b   Riggs, George A ^c   Nghiem, Son V ^d   Tedesco, Marco ^e   Kim, Edward ^a   Montesano, Paul M ^c   Kelly, Richard E J ^f   Casey, Kimberly A ^g   Choudhury, Bhaskar ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Offutt AFB   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^g Wylie Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MELTING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; MILITARY AVIATION; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENTS; EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; FRACTIONAL SNOW COVERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPACE ADMINISTRATION;

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; CLOUD COVER; DETECTION METHOD; EOS; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER;

COLORADO; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953223665     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160903548013     Document Type: Article

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