Snow density retrieval using SAR data: algorithm validation and applications in part of North Western Himalaya
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Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun 4-kalidas road, 248001 Uttarakhand, India Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, 247667 Uttarakhand, India Snow and Avalanche Studies Establishment (SASE), Chandigarh Himparisar, Sector 37-A, 160017 Chandigarh, India Institute for Computational Earth System Science, Ellison Hall 6808, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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