Snow optical retrievals from Sentinel-3
Abstract
This presentation presents results from a two year ESA Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions (SEOM) study "Sentinel-3 for Science (S34SCI), Land Study 1: SNOW" spanning 2017 through 2018. Snow optical retrievals here focus on: Snow Extent; Fractional Snow Cover; Snow Spectral Albedo; Snow Broadband Albedo; Snow Grain Size & Snow Specific Surface Area; and Snow Impurity Content. Experimental work includes accounting for complex terrain effects. The presentation includes: processing chains; mosaic work. Validation results are presented: versus spectral observations from Antarctica and the French Alps; versus 20 PROMICE automatic weather stations on Greenland; via intercomparison of broadband albedo retrievals with the NASA MODIS MOD10A1 product.
- Publication:
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EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- April 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018EGUGA..20.1507B