Modis-based snow cover products, validation, and hydrologic applications

Multiscale Hydrologic Remote Sensing: Perspectives and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 185-212

  Parajka, Juraj ^a   Blöschl, Günter ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER RESOURCES;

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS; HYDROLOGIC BALANCE; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER MAPPING; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TERRAIN CHARACTERISTICS;

SNOW;

EID: 84897970392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b11279     Document Type: Chapter

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