Automated mapping of Earth's annual minimum exposed snow and ice with MODIS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Painter, Thomas H ^a   Brodzik, Mary J ^b   Racoviteanu, Adina ^c   Armstrong, Richard ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b National Snow and Ice Data Center ^*  (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; METADATA; RADIOMETERS; SNOW;

ANTHROPOCENE; AUTOMATED MAPPING; COMPLETE MAPPINGS; END-PRODUCTS; GLOBAL DATA; GRAIN SIZE; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SNOW AND ICE; SNOW COVERED AREA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME-PERIODS;

ICE;

EID: 84868309594     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053340     Document Type: Article

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