Towards an enhanced method to map snow cover areas and derive snow-water equivalent in Lebanon

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 513, Issue , 2014, Pages 274-282

  Mhawej, Mario ^a   Faour, Ghaleb ^a   Fayad, Abbas ^a   Shaban, Amin ^a  

^a Genome for Scientific Research   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Lebanon; MODIS; New combing method; Snow water equivalent; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

LEBANON; MODIS; NEW COMBING METHOD; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; WATER CYCLE;

SNOW;

DATA SET; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

LEBANON;

EID: 84898840681     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.058     Document Type: Article

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