Analysis of sub-pixel snow and ice extent over the extratropical Andes using spectral unmixing of historical Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 141, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-78

  Cortés, Gonzalo ^a   Girotto, Manuela ^a   Margulis, Steven A ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacier area change; Remote sensing of snow; Spectral unmixing; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PIXELS;

AREA-CHANGES; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; HISTORICAL PERIODS; REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW; SNOW COVERED AREA; SPECTRAL UNMIXING; TREND ANALYSIS;

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; LANDSAT; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; TREND ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84888083698     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.023     Document Type: Article

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