Inter-calibrating SMMR, SSM/I and SSMI/S data to improve the consistency of snow-depth products in China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7212-7230

  Dai, Liyun ^a   Che, Tao ^a,b   Ding, Yongjian ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration; Passive microwave remote sensing; Snow cover; Snow depth

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; SCANNING MULTICHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; TEMPORAL CONTINUITY;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

EID: 84933575476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607212     Document Type: Article

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