NDLI: Accuracy Assessment of MODIS Fractional Snow Cover Product for Eastern Himalayan Catchment

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Author	Mishra, P. Zaphu, V. V. Monica, N. Bhadra, A. Bandyopadhyay, A.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Snow-cover information is important for a wide variety of scientific studies, water supply and management applications. Various remote sensing products are used to identify spatial–temporal trends in snow cover. Snow cover maps produced by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellites are one of the best sources of satellite-based snow cover monitoring since they are produced on a daily basis and can be downloaded from the Internet for free. Their main limitation, however, is cloud obscuration. The accuracy of MODIS snow products must be known in order to optimize their use. Present study deals with accuracy assessment of the MODIS Fractional Snow Products as compared to snow cover image obtained from IRS-P6 LISS-III. MODIS Fractional Snow Cover Product for three snow seasons (October–May) of 2006–07, 2008–09, and 2009–10 for both MOD10A1 and MYD10A1 were downloaded from NASA Distributed Active Archive Centre (DAAC) located at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) ( http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb/ ). MODIS Reprojection Tool (Version 4.1) and ERDAS IMAGINE 2011 were respectively used for converting downloaded data to the suitable format for GIS software and to subset the image for study area. IRS-P6 LISS-III images for the study area were procured from National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO, Hyderabad, India. The comparison of SCA% in between MODIS and LISS-III showed that performance of MODIS for snow cover mapping in Eastern Himalayan region is satisfactory.
Starting Page	977
Ending Page	985
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0255660X
Journal	Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	09743006
Language	English
Publisher	Springer India
Publisher Date	2016-02-29
Publisher Place	New Delhi
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	MODIS fractional snow cover product IRS-P6 LISS-III Snow-cover area (SCA) percentage Normalized difference snow index (NDSI) Eastern Himalayan region Earth Sciences Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Earth and Planetary Sciences Geography, Planning and Development

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