• DocumentCode
    2204757
  • Title

    Multi-temporal wet snow mapping in alpine context using polarimetric Radarsat-2 time-series

  • Author

    Lessard-Fontaine, A. ; Allain, S. ; Dedieu, J.-P. ; Durand, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    IETR, Univ. of Rennes 1, Rennes, France
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    22-27 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    1569
  • Lastpage
    1571
  • Abstract
    The temporal monitoring of snow cover in mountainous areas is a very important challenge in order to predict snow melting. A way to solve this problematic is the snow detection using polarimetric SAR data. By this way, a set of eight Radarsat-2 images have been acquired over the French Alps during 2009 and 2010. This project proposes to apply snow detection algorithms with some improvements to map dry/no snow cover over the study area under different snow conditions.
  • Keywords
    remote sensing by radar; snow; AD 2009 to 2010; Alpine context; French Alps; Radarsat-2 images; multitemporal wet snow mapping; polarimetric RADARSAT-2 time-series; polarimetric SAR data; snow cover temporal monitoring; snow detection; snow detection algorithms; snow melting prediction; Detection algorithms; Earth; Remote sensing; Satellites; Snow; Synthetic aperture radar; Temperature measurement; Polarimetry; Radarsat-2; SAR; snow;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    2153-6996
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1160-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2153-6996
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351096
  • Filename
    6351096