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Snow-covered Area

Snow-Covered Area is a geospatial metric that quantifies the extent of Earth's surface obscured by snow at a given time, derived through remote sensing or observational data to support cryospheric monitoring and hydrological modeling.

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970

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Development of methods for mapping global snow cover using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer data

Dorothy K. Hall, George A. Riggs, V. V. Salomonson · Remote Sensing of Environment · 1995 · 1.4K citations

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Estimating fractional snow cover from MODIS using the normalized difference snow index

V. V. Salomonson, Igor Appel · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2004 · 779 citations

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A Seasonal Snow Cover Classification System for Local to Global Applications

Matthew Sturm, Jon Holmgren, Glen E. Liston · Journal of Climate · 1995 · 710 citations

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A One-dimensional temperature model for a snow cover : technical documentation for SNTHERM.89

Rachel Jordan · US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core) · 1990 · 674 citations · Full text

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Global Snow Cover Monitoring: An Update

David A. Robinson, Kenneth F. Dewey, Richard R. Heim · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1993 · 640 citations

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Authors

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  1. DK
    Dorothy K. Hall

    Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

    24 publications · 3.6K citations

    18

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  2. SG
    Simon Gascoin

    Centre d'Études Spatiales de la Biosphère, France

    18 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. JL
    James L. Foster

    Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

    16 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. GE
    Glen E. Liston

    Colorado State University, United States

    14 publications · 2.2K citations

    13

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  5. DA
    David A. Robinson

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    12 publications · 1.5K citations

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Institutions

970

  1. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    33 h-index

    128 publications

    14.3K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    30 h-index

    170 publications

    6.9K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    27 h-index

    126 publications

    8K citations

  4. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    23 h-index

    41 publications

    4.2K citations

  5. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    23 h-index

    61 publications

    5K citations

  6. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    19 h-index

    42 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

    Marseille, France

    19 h-index

    55 publications

    3.6K citations

  8. Centre d'Études Spatiales de la Biosphère

    Toulouse, France

    19 h-index

    78 publications

    6.3K citations

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  1. Remote Sensing of Environment

    38 publications · 5.5K citations

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  2. Remote Sensing

    50 publications · 1.8K citations

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  3. Hydrological Processes

    32 publications · 3.1K citations

    27

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  4. ˜The œcryosphere

    35 publications · 2.6K citations

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