The use of satellite remote sensing for the mapping of snow-cover characteristics has a long- lasting history reaching back until the 1960s. Because snow cover plays an important role in …
The cryosphere is defined by the presence of frozen water in its many forms: glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, snow, permafrost, and river and lake ice. In the extended Hindu Kush …
A series of satellite-based passive and active microwave instruments provide soil moisture retrievals spanning altogether more than three decades. This offers the opportunity to …
Y Liu, AH Weerts, M Clark… - Hydrology and earth …, 2012 - hess.copernicus.org
Data assimilation (DA) holds considerable potential for improving hydrologic predictions as demonstrated in numerous research studies. However, advances in hydrologic DA research …
A Frei, M Tedesco, S Lee, J Foster, DK Hall… - Advances in Space …, 2012 - Elsevier
Snow cover over the Northern Hemisphere plays a crucial role in the Earth's hydrology and surface energy balance, and modulates feedbacks that control variations of global climate …
L Dai, T Che, J Wang, P Zhang - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Static snow depth retrieval algorithms tend to underestimate the snow depth at the beginning of the snow season and overestimate the snow depth at the end of the snow …
Eight years (2002–2010) of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS (AMSR‐E) snow water equivalent (SWE) retrievals and Moderate Resolution Imaging …
M Tedesco, PS Narvekar - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the launch of the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) in 1978, several studies have demonstrated the capability of spaceborne passive microwave sensors …
Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring …