Comparison of water-related land cover types in six 1-km global land cover datasets

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 649-664

  Nakaegawa, Tosiyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Land use; Remote sensing; Snow cover; Vegetation; Water masses; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; LAND TYPE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER; WETLAND;

EID: 84864743872     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-10-05036.1     Document Type: Article

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