Improved corrections of forest effects on passive microwave satellite remote sensing of snow over boreal and subarctic regions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3824-3837

  Langlois, Alexandre ^a   Royer, Alain ^a   Dupont, Florent ^a,b   Roy, Alexandre ^a   Goita, Kalifa ^a   Picard, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Earth Observing System (AMSR E); airborne data; passive microwave; snow; stem volume; transmissivity; vegetation fraction

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DATA; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; STEM VOLUME; TRANSMISSIVITY; VEGETATION FRACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ESTIMATION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

SNOW;

AIRBORNE SENSING; AMSR-E; BOREAL FOREST; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ERROR CORRECTION; FOREST COVER; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; STEM; SUBARCTIC REGION; TRANSMISSIVITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 80053573844     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2138145     Document Type: Article

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