Fractional snow cover mapping through artificial neural network analysis of MODIS surface reflectance

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3355-3366

  Dobreva, Iliyana D ^a   Klein, Andrew G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; MODIS; Snow cover; Snow fraction

Indexed keywords

AREAL MEASUREMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; AUXILIARY INFORMATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); FEED-FORWARD; FORESTED AREA; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER TYPES; LANDSAT; MAPPING SNOW COVER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE SNOW INDICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SNOW COVER; SNOW COVER EXTENTS; SNOW COVER MAPPING; SNOW COVERS; SPATIAL MIXING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL UNMIXING; SUB PIXELS; SURFACE COMPONENTS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TEST SCENES;

ESTIMATION; MAPPING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

SNOW;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; NDVI; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

EID: 81355160635     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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