Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-559-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-559-2024
Research article
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12 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2024

Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho – Part 1: Using Sentinel-1 repeat-pass interferometry

Shadi Oveisgharan, Robert Zinke, Zachary Hoppinen, and Hans Peter Marshall

Data sets

SnowEx20-21 QSI Lidar Snow Depth 0.5m UTM Grid, Version 1 N. Adebisi et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/VBUN16K365DG

Short summary
The seasonal snowpack provides water resources to billions of people worldwide. Large-scale mapping of snow water equivalent (SWE) with high resolution is critical for many scientific and economics fields. In this work we used the radar remote sensing interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to estimate the SWE change between 2 d. The error in the estimated SWE change is less than 2 cm for in situ stations. Additionally, the retrieved SWE using InSAR is correlated with lidar snow depth.