Global monitoring of large reservoir storage from satellite remote sensing

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gao, Huilin ^a,b   Birkett, Charon ^c   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PRODUCTS; DATA SETS; GLOBAL MONITORING; HIGH FLOW; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RESERVOIR CAPACITY; RESERVOIR STORAGE; RESERVOIR WATER; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; STORAGE TIME; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE ELEVATION DATA; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIR; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER QUALITY; WATER STORAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866001858     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012063     Document Type: Article

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