TY - GEN
T1 - NASA's snowex campaign
T2 - 37th Annual IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2017
AU - Kim, Edward
AU - Gatebe, Charles
AU - Hall, Dorothy
AU - Newlin, Jerry
AU - Misakonis, Amy
AU - Elder, Kelly
AU - Marshall, Hans Peter
AU - Hiemstra, Chris
AU - Brucker, Ludovic
AU - De Marco, Eugenia
AU - Crawford, Chris
AU - Kang, Do Hyuk
AU - Entin, Jared
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - SnowEx is a multi-year airborne snow campaign with the primary goal of addressing the question: How much water is stored in Earth's terrestrial snow-covered regions? Year 1 (2016-17) focused on the distribution of snow-water equivalent (SWE) and the snow energy balance in a forested environment. The year 1 primary site was Grand Mesa and the secondary site was the Senator Beck Basin, both in western, Colorado, USA. Nine sensors on five aircraft made observations using a broad range of sensing techniques-active and passive microwave, and active and passive optical/infrared - to determine the sensitivity and accuracy of these potential satellite remote sensing techniques, along with models, to measure snow under a range of forest conditions. SnowEx also included an extensive range of ground truth measurements - in-situ manual samples, snow pits, ground based remote sensing measurements, and sophisticated new techniques. A detailed description of the data collected will be given and some preliminary results will be presented.
AB - SnowEx is a multi-year airborne snow campaign with the primary goal of addressing the question: How much water is stored in Earth's terrestrial snow-covered regions? Year 1 (2016-17) focused on the distribution of snow-water equivalent (SWE) and the snow energy balance in a forested environment. The year 1 primary site was Grand Mesa and the secondary site was the Senator Beck Basin, both in western, Colorado, USA. Nine sensors on five aircraft made observations using a broad range of sensing techniques-active and passive microwave, and active and passive optical/infrared - to determine the sensitivity and accuracy of these potential satellite remote sensing techniques, along with models, to measure snow under a range of forest conditions. SnowEx also included an extensive range of ground truth measurements - in-situ manual samples, snow pits, ground based remote sensing measurements, and sophisticated new techniques. A detailed description of the data collected will be given and some preliminary results will be presented.
KW - cryosphere
KW - field experiment
KW - forest
KW - remote sensing
KW - snow
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041811678&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127222
DO - 10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127222
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041811678
T3 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
SP - 1388
EP - 1390
BT - 2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 July 2017 through 28 July 2017
ER -
