Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high frequency radar remote sensing

L Tsang, M Durand, C Derksen, AP Barros… - The Cryosphere …, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
Seasonal snow cover is the largest single component of the cryosphere in areal extent,
covering an average of 46 million square km of Earth's surface (31% of the land area) each …

2019 年中国陆表定量遥感发展综述

梁顺林, 白瑞, 陈晓娜, 程洁, 范闻捷, 何涛, 贾坤… - 遥感学报, 2021 - ygxb.ac.cn
为了更好地了解中国定量遥感的发展态势和加强同行之间的信息交流, 根据中国学者2019
年发表的SCI 检索论文和部分中文论文, 对陆表定量遥感的核心进展进行了总结 …

The Legacy of Scatterometers: Review of applications and perspective

S Singh, RK Tiwari, V Sood, R Kaur… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A scatterometer, as an active microwave radar sensor, measures the return of radar waves
in the form of a backscatter coefficient after reflection or scattering from Earth's surface. The …

Retrieval of effective correlation length and snow water equivalent from radar and passive microwave measurements

J Lemmetyinen, C Derksen, H Rott, G Macelloni… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Current methods for retrieving SWE (snow water equivalent) from space rely on passive
microwave sensors. Observations are limited by poor spatial resolution, ambiguities related …

[HTML][HTML] Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho–Part 1: Using Sentinel-1 repeat-pass interferometry

S Oveisgharan, R Zinke, Z Hoppinen… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow water equivalent (SWE) is identified as the key element of the snowpack that impacts
rivers' streamflow and water cycle. Both active and passive microwave remote sensing …

Potential applications of SCATSAT-1 satellite sensor: a systematic review

S Singh, RK Tiwari, HS Gusain, V Sood - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Ku-band (13.5 GHz) based scatterometer is the main sensor onboard Scatterometer
Satellite (SCATSAT-1) launched on 26th September 2016 by Indian Space Research …

Forward and inverse radar modeling of terrestrial snow using SnowSAR data

J Zhu, S Tan, J King, C Derksen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we develop a radar snow water equivalent (SWE) retrieval algorithm based on
a parameterized forward model of bicontinuous dense media radiative transfer (Bic-DMRT) …

Evaluation of SCATSAT-1 data for snow cover area mapping over a part of Western Himalayas

V Sood, HS Gusain, S Gupta, S Singh, S Kaur - Advances in Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present work, the potential of Scatterometer Satellite (SCATSAT-1) data (operated at
Ku-band 13.515 GHz) is evaluated to estimate the binary Snow Cover Maps (SCMs) over a …

Snow water equivalent retrieval using active and passive microwave observations

J Zhu, S Tan, L Tsang, DH Kang… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper implements a newly developed combined active and passive algorithm for the
retrieval of snow water equivalent (SWE) by using three‐channel active and two‐channel …

An overview of snow water equivalent: Methods, challenges, and future outlook

M Taheri, A Mohammadian - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The snow depth or snow water equivalent affects water, carbon, and energy cycles as well
as surface–atmosphere interactions. Therefore, the global monitoring of spatiotemporal …