Title :
Merging the MODIS and RUCL monthly snow-cover records
Author :
Hall, Dorothy K. ; Foster, James L. ; Robinson, David A. ; Riggs, George A.
Author_Institution :
Oceans & Ice Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
Monthly time series from two satellite snow-cover records are merged to study the construction of a climate-data record for the Northern Hemisphere, and its limitations.
Keywords :
climatology; radiometry; remote sensing; snow; MODIS-RUCL merging; Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; Northern Hemisphere; Rutgers University Climate Lab; climate-data record; monthly snow-cover record; satellite snow-cover records; Clouds; Earth Observing System; Filters; Ice; MODIS; Merging; Oceans; Satellites; Snow; Spatial resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8742-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1368660