Snow cover maps from MODIS images at 250 m resolution, part 1: Algorithm description

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-126

  Notarnicola, Claudia ^a   Duguay, Martial ^a   Moelg, Nico ^b   Schellenberger, Thomas ^c   Tetzlaff, Anke ^a   Monsorno, Roberto ^a   Costa, Armin ^a   Steurer, Christian ^a,d   Zebisch, Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d Museum of Nature South Tyrol   (Italy)

Author keywords

MODIS; NDVI; Snow; Snow covered area; Topography

Indexed keywords

1KM RESOLUTION; ALGORITHM DESCRIPTION; AQUA SATELLITES; CENTRAL EUROPE; CLOUD COVERAGE; CLOUD DETECTION; END USERS; FORESTED AREA; INPUT DATAS; LANDSAT ETM; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; QUALITY INDICES; RE-PROJECTION; RECEIVING STATIONS; REFLECTANCE VALUES; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; WATERBODIES;

ALGORITHMS; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHY;

SNOW;

EID: 84873189252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5010110     Document Type: Article

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