Snow thickness monitoring using GNSS measurements

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1109-1113

  Rodriguez Alvarez, Nereida ^a   Aguasca, Albert ^a   Valencia, Enric ^a   Bosch Lluis, Xavier ^a   Camps, Adriano ^a   Ramos Perez, Isaac ^a   Park, Hyuk ^a   Vall Llossera, Merce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS); reflectometry; snow; thickness monitoring

Indexed keywords

FIELD EXPERIMENT; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; PYRENEES; REFLECTOMETRY; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SNOW THICKNESS; THICKNESS MONITORING; VEGETATION HEIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE;

SNOW;

EID: 84863440391     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2190379     Document Type: Article

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