Remote sensing for snow hydrology in China: Challenges and perspectives

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Jian ^a   Li, Hongxing ^a,b   Hao, Xiaohua ^a   Huang, Xiaodong ^c   Hou, Jinliang ^a   Che, Tao ^a   Dai, Liyun ^a   Liang, Tiangang ^c   Huang, Chunlin ^a   Li, Hongyi ^a   Tang, Zhiguang ^a   Wang, Zengyan ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

remote sensing of snow; snow disaster; snow hydrology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTERS; HYDROLOGY; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; COOPERATIVE OBSERVATIONS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; REMOTE SENSING MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING OF SNOW; SNOW DISASTER; SNOW HYDROLOGY; SNOWMELT RUNOFF MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84905748539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.084687     Document Type: Article

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