Spatiotemporal changes of snow cover over the Tibetan plateau based on cloud-removed moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer fractional snow cover product from 2001 to 2011

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tang, Zhiguang ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Li, Hongyi ^a   Yan, Lili ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

cloud removal; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; snow cover; spatiotemporal changes; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

CLOUD REMOVAL; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SNOW COVERS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

SNOW;

EID: 84893598938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073582     Document Type: Article

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