The potential of COSMO-SkyMed SAR images in monitoring snow cover characteristics

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-13

  Pettinato, S ^a   Santi, E ^a   Brogioni, M ^a   Paloscia, S ^a   Palchetti, E ^a   Xiong, Chuan ^b,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^c Institute for Remote Sensing Applications   (China)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed; snow; snow depth (SD); snow water equivalent (SWE)

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE RISK; COSMO-SKYMED; COSMO-SKYMED MISSION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GROUND STATIONS; LARGE CRYSTAL; SAR IMAGES; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SNOW;

EID: 84866235455     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2189752     Document Type: Article

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