Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

A AghaKouchak, A Farahmand, FS Melton… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches using satellite
remote sensing observations from climatological and ecosystem perspectives. We argue …

Remote sensing of snow–a review of available methods

AJ Dietz, C Kuenzer, U Gessner… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Status and change of the cryosphere in the extended Hindu Kush Himalaya region

T Bolch, JM Shea, S Liu, FM Azam, Y Gao… - The Hindu Kush …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

YY Liu, WA Dorigo, RM Parinussa, RAM de Jeu… - Remote sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Advancing data assimilation in operational hydrologic forecasting: progresses, challenges, and emerging opportunities

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 review of global satellite-derived snow products

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 …

Snow depth and snow water equivalent estimation from AMSR-E data based on a priori snow characteristics in Xinjiang, China

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 …

Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover …

GJM De Lannoy, RH Reichle… - Water Resources …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Eight years (2002–2010) of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–EOS (AMSR‐E)
snow water equivalent (SWE) retrievals and Moderate Resolution Imaging …

Assessment of the nasa amsr-e swe product

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 …

[图书][B] Remote sensing of drought: Innovative monitoring approaches

BD Wardlow, MC Anderson, JP Verdin - 2012 - books.google.com
Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote
sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring …