• DocumentCode
    1980605
  • Title

    The Global Snow Cover Seen by the Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR)

  • Author

    Patil, S. ; Künzi, K.F. ; Rott, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Institute of Applied Physics, University of Berne Bern, SWITZEARLAND
  • fYear
    1981
  • fDate
    7-11 Sept. 1981
  • Firstpage
    227
  • Lastpage
    232
  • Abstract
    The use of spaceborne multifrequency microwave radiometer data to obtain important parameters of global snow cover over land is demonstrated. With the help of an interactive image display system we have optimized the retrieval algorithms for snow extent and snow melt, in addition the snow water equivalent can be determined for dry snow of depth < 50 cm.
  • Keywords
    Displays; Extraterrestrial measurements; Frequency; Image retrieval; Information retrieval; Microwave radiometry; Polarization; Satellite broadcasting; Snow; Statistical analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 1981. 11th European
  • Conference_Location
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.1981.332927
  • Filename
    4131617