Landsat-based snow persistence map for northwest Alaska

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 163, Issue , 2015, Pages 23-31

  Macander, Matthew J ^a   Swingley, Christopher S ^a   Joly, Kyle ^b   Raynolds, Martha K ^a,c  

^a ABR Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic; Caribou; LANDSAT; North slope; SNOTEL; Snow; Snow persistence; Snow free; Tiled satellite data

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; CARIBOU; LANDSAT; NORTH SLOPE; SATELLITE DATA; SNOTEL;

SNOW;

EID: 84939953006     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.028     Document Type: Article

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