Seasonal snow monitoring in Northeast China using space-borne sensors: Preliminary results

Geographic Information Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-119

  Song, Kaishan ^a   Zhang, Yuanzhi ^b   Jin, Cui ^a   Yan, Su ^b   Chiu, Long S ^b  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Snow covered area (SCA); Snow water equivalent (SWE); Space borne data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007491689     PISSN: 10824006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10824000809480646     Document Type: Article

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