The importance of snow cover extent (SCE) has been proven to strongly link with various
natural phenomenon and human activities; consequently, monitoring snow cover is one the …

Highly accurate observations at various scales on the land surface are urgently needed for
the studies of many areas, such as hydrology, meteorology, and agriculture. With the rapid …

Traditional studies on mapping wet snow cover extent (SCE) often feature limitations,
especially in vegetated and mountainous areas. The aim of this study is to propose a new …

To improve the poor accuracy of the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer) daily fractional snow cover product over the complex terrain of the …

This paper examines the capability assessment of fully polarimetric L-band data for the snow
and nonsnow-area classifications. The data sets used are the fully polarimetric Advanced …

Distribution of snow and its melting is a critical factor affecting local weather, avalanche and
flood forecasting, livelihood of people residing, and hydropower production. Most of the …

Recently, with the extensive availability of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
data, methods that are simple and efficient, and involve lesser computation and data …

The expansion of shrub vegetation in Arctic and sub-Arctic environments observed in the
past decades can have significant effects on northern ecosystems. There is a need for …

The main objective of this article is to develop a physically constrained support vector
machine (SVM) to predict C-band backscatter over snow-covered terrain as a function of …

In the present study, we explore the value of employing both vegetation indexes as well as
land surface temperature derived from Project for On-Board Autonomy—Vegetation (PROBA …