Evaluating potential of MODIS-based indices in determining "snow gone" stage over forest-dominant regions

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1348-1363

  Sekhon, Navdeep S ^a   Hassan, Quazi K ^a   Sleep, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Alberta Department of Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enhanced vegetation index; Forest; Natural subregions; Normalized difference snow index; Normalized difference water index

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; FOREST; NATURAL SUBREGIONS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE SNOW INDICES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX;

DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FORECASTING; INFRARED RADIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TOWERS; VEGETATION;

SNOW;

COEFFICIENTS; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; PLANTS; PYROMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; SNOW; TOWERS; WATER;

EID: 84860388899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2051348     Document Type: Article

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