Assessment of daily MODIS snow cover products to monitor snow cover dynamics over the Moroccan Atlas mountain range

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 160, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-86

  Marchane, A ^a   Jarlan, L ^b   Hanich, L ^a   Boudhar, A ^c   Gascoin, S ^b   Tavernier, A ^b   Filali, N ^d   Le Page, M ^b   Hagolle, O ^b   Berjamy, B ^e  

^a CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c SULTAN MOULAY SLIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^d Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Direction de la Météorologie Nationale   (Morocco)

^e Agence de Bassin Hydraulique du Tensift   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Mediterranean; MODIS; Semi arid; Snow; Trend; Validation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; RADIOMETERS; RUNOFF; WATER SUPPLY;

MEDITERRANEAN; MODIS; SEMI ARID; TREND; VALIDATION;

SNOW;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; FORMOSAT; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOROCCO;

EID: 85027938106     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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