Subpixel snow mapping of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau using MODIS data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 251-262

  Zhua, Ji ^a,b   Shi, Jiancheng ^a   Wang, Yuanhui ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b HEBEI GEO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Analysis; Cloud removal; Multiple endmember spectral mixture; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASTER; CORRELATION; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; NDVI; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84864517337     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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