Validation of a modified snow cover retrieval algorithm from historical 1-km AVHRR data over the European Alps

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 497-515

  Husler F ^a   Jonas, T ^b   Wunderle, S ^a   Albrecht, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^c Meteotest   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

European Alps; Historical 1 km AVHRR data; Snow spatial extent; Temporal and spatial validation

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; CLIMATIC VARIATION; DATA SETS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPEAN ALPS; GROUND-BASED STATIONS; HISTORICAL 1-KM AVHRR DATA; LANDSAT TM DATA; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; PROBABILITY MAPS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE TIME; SEASONAL SNOW COVER; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES; SNOW COVERS; SNOW EXTENTS; SPATIAL EXTENT; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VALIDATION; UNIVERSITY OF BERN;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LOGISTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HISTORICAL RECORD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MODEL VALIDATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPS;

EID: 84860333092     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.02.018     Document Type: Article

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