Remote Sensing of Spring Snowmelt in Siberia

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 40, Issue , 2010, Pages 135-155

  Bartsch, A ^a   Wagner, W ^a   Kidd, R ^a,b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Now at Spatial Information Mapping Centre   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Active microwaves; Satellite data; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869227561     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8641-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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