Snow cover maps from MODIS images at 250 m resolution, part 2: Validation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1568-1587

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

In situ snow depth; Landsat; MODIS; Snow; Snow covered area

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE HETEROGENEITIES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SATELLITES; MODIS; MODIS SNOW PRODUCTS; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW DEPTHS;

ALGORITHMS; FLOOD CONTROL; FORESTRY; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

SNOW;

ALGORITHMS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SNOW;

EID: 84880442152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5041568     Document Type: Article

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