Dry snow analysis in alpine regions using RADARSAT-2 full polarimetry data. Comparison with in situ measurements

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3658-3661

  Dedieu, J P ^a   Besic, N ^b   Vasile, G ^b   Mathieu, J ^a   Durand, Y ^c   Gottardi, F ^d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

dry snow; entropy; polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; ENTROPY; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

ALPINE REGIONS; ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL CHANGES; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; DRY SNOW; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INVERSE CORRELATION; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911419542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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