Use of AMSR-E microwave satellite data for land surface characteristics and snow cover variation

Mukesh Singh Boori1, Ralph R Ferraro2, Komal Choudhary3

  • 1National Research Council (NRC), Washington DC, USA; NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/ Satellite Climate Studies Branch and Cooperative Institute for Climate & Satellites (CICS), ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Scientific Research Laboratory of Automated Systems of Scientific Research (SRL-35), Samara National Research University, Samara, Russia; Department of Geography, Bonn University, Bonn, Germany.

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