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Brief communication
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26 Oct 2021
Brief communication |
| 26 Oct 2021
| 26 Oct 2021
Brief communication: Evaluation of the snow cover detection in the Copernicus High Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring Service
Zacharie Barrou Dumont
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNRS/CNES/IRD/INRAE/UPS, Toulouse,
France
Simon Gascoin
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNRS/CNES/IRD/INRAE/UPS, Toulouse,
France
Olivier Hagolle
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse, CNRS/CNES/IRD/INRAE/UPS, Toulouse,
France
Michaël Ablain
Magellium, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Rémi Jugier
Magellium, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Germain Salgues
Magellium, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Florence Marti
Magellium, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Aurore Dupuis
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, France
Marie Dumont
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse,
Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, Grenoble,
France
Samuel Morin
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse,
Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, Grenoble,
France
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Short summary
Since 2020, the Copernicus High Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring Service has distributed snow cover maps at 20 m resolution over Europe in near-real time. These products are derived from the Sentinel-2 Earth observation mission, with a revisit time of 5 d or less (cloud-permitting). Here we show the good accuracy of the snow detection over a wide range of regions in Europe, except in dense forest regions where the snow cover is hidden by the trees.
Since 2020, the Copernicus High Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring Service has distributed snow...
