Detecting ice-sheet melt area over western Greenland using MODIS and AMSR-E data for the summer periods of 2002-2006

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-126

  McCabe, Matthew F ^a,b   Chylek, Petr ^a   Dubey, Manvendra K ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE; GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCHES; GRADIENT RATIO; GREENLAND; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; NEAR INFRARED; REFLECTANCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WEST COAST;

EARTH (PLANET); NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS;

ICE;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; COASTAL ZONE; EOS; ICE SHEET; MELTING; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; NEAR INFRARED; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRA (SATELLITE); WAVELENGTH;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 80054996050     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.501830     Document Type: Article

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