Deriving long term snow cover extent dataset from AVHRR and MODIS data: Central Asia case study

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 136, Issue , 2013, Pages 146-162

  Zhou, Hang ^a   Aizen, Elena ^a   Aizen, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Central Asia; MODIS; Snow cover

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CENTRAL ASIA; IDENTIFICATION SCHEME; MODIS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; SNOW COVER DURATIONS; SNOW COVERS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

RADIOMETERS; WATERSHEDS;

SNOW;

AVHRR; DATA SET; MELTING; MODIS; MOUNTAIN REGION; PIXEL; PROBABILITY; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; TREND ANALYSIS;

AMU DARYA BASIN; CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84878353711     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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