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Snowpack monitoring in North America and Eurasia using passive microwave satellite data
- Source :
- Remote Sensing of Environment. 10
- Publication Year :
- 1980
- Publisher :
- United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1980.
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Abstract
- Areas of the Canadian high plains, the Montana and North Dakota high plains, and the steppes of central Russia have been studied in an effort to determine the utility of spaceborne microwave radiometers for monitoring snow depths in different geographic areas. Significant regression relationships between snow depth and microwave brightness temperatures were developed for each of these homogeneous areas. In each of the study areas investigated in this paper, Nimbus-6 (0.81 cm) ESMR data produced higher correlations than Nimbus-5 (1.55 cm) ESMR data in relating microwave brightness temperature to snow depth. It is difficult to extrapolate relationships between microwave brightness temperature and snow depth from one area to another because different geographic areas are likely to have different snowpack conditions.
- Subjects :
- Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- NASA Technical Reports
- Journal :
- Remote Sensing of Environment
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsnas.19820049380
- Document Type :
- Report
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-4257(80)90088-7