Developing snow cover parameters maps from MODIS, AMSR-E, and blended snow products

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 351-361

  Gao, Yang ^a,b   Xie, Hongjie ^b   Yao, Tandong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS;

DERIVED PARAMETERS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; HYDROLOGICAL YEARS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; SNOW COVER DURATIONS; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

AMSR-E; HYDROLOGY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 79960353382     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.77.4.351     Document Type: Article

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