The potential of Cosmo-Skymed SAR images in mapping snow cover and snow water equivalent

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2733-2736

  Pettinato, S ^a   Santi, E ^a   Brogioni, M ^a   Paloscia, S ^a   Pampaloni, P ^a   Palchetti, E ^a   Shi, Jianchen ^b,c   Xiong, Chuan ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Beijing Remote Sensing Institute   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

COSMO Skymed; Snow; SWE

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE RISK; COSMO-SKYMED; COSMO-SKYMED MISSION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; MAPPING SNOW COVER; MODEL SIMULATION; SAR IMAGES; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SWE; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SNOW;

EID: 80955123844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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