Ground-based testing of MODIS fractional snow cover in subalpine meadows and forests of the Sierra Nevada

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 128, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-57

  Raleigh, Mark S ^a   Rittger, Karl ^b   Moore, Courtney E ^c   Henn, Brian ^a   Lutz, James A ^d   Lundquist, Jessica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c United States Department of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy adjustment; Forests; Ground based observations; MODIS; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ADJUSTMENT; FORESTS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MODIS; SNOW COVERS;

ERRORS; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSORS;

SNOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ASTER; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; FOREST COVER; GRAIN SIZE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEADOW; MODIS; SNOW COVER; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; NEVADA; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS; SNOW;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867806178     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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