Temporal and spatial aspects of snow distribution in the Nam Co Basin on the Tibetan Plateau from MODIS data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2700-2712

  Kropacek, Jan ^a   Feng, Chen ^b   Alle, Markus ^a   Kang, Shichang ^b,c   Hochschild, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

MODIS; Nam Co Basin; RGB synthesis; Snow distribution; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

MODIS; NAM CO BASIN; RGB SYNTHESIS; SNOW DISTRIBUTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; LAKES; RADIOMETERS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SNOW;

EID: 80051864459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2122700     Document Type: Article

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