Snow cover monitoring from remote-sensing satellites: Possibilities for drought assessment

Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 359-386

  Kongoli, Cezar ^a,b   Romanov, Peter ^a,b   Ferraro, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84937514955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b11863     Document Type: Chapter

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