Method for detecting snow lines from MODIS data and assessment of changes in the nianqingtanglha mountains of the Tibet Plateau

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 769-776

  Lei, Liping ^a   Zeng, Zhaocheng ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

Author keywords

DEM; minimum snow cover extent; MODIS; snow line; temperature; Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

DEM; MODIS; SNOW COVER EXTENTS; SNOWLINE; TIBET PLATEAU;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SURVEYING; TEMPERATURE;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODIS; MOUNTAIN; PIXEL; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

CHINA; NIANQINGTANGULA MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84863534978     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2200654     Document Type: Article

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