Satellite based observations for seasonal snow cover detection and characterisation in Australia

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-71

  Bormann, Kathryn J ^a   McCabe, Matthew F ^a   Evans, Jason P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; MODIS; Regional scale; Snow detection; Snow trends

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; AREA DETECTION; AUSTRALIA; DATA SETS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NEW SATELLITES; REGIONAL SCALE; SATELLITE BASED OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL SNOW COVER; SNOW COVER EXTENTS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW HYDROLOGY; SNOW MELT; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SNOW;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLEAR SKY; DATA SET; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84860519315     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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