High-Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring; Fractional Snow Cover

Short description

The Fractional Snow Cover (FSC) product provides the snow fraction at the Top Of Canopy (FSCTOC) and On Ground (FSCOG). NDSI is also provided as part of this service.

Band information

Band Name	Sample Type	Expected Values	Description
FSCTOC	UINT 8	0-100%, 205 - cloud or cloud shadow, 255 - no data	Top of canopy fractional snow cover (%)
FSCOG	UINT8	0-100%, 205 - cloud or cloud shadow, 255 - no data	On-ground fractional snow cover (%)
QCTOC	UINT8	0 - high quality, 1 - medium quality, 2 - low quality, 3 - minimal quality, 205 - cloud or cloud shadow, 255 - no data	FSCTOC quality layer
QCOG	UINT8	0 - high quality, 1 - medium quality, 2 - low quality, 3 - minimal quality, 205 - cloud or cloud shadow, 255 - no data	FSCOG quality layer
NDSI	UINT8	0-100%, 205 - cloud or cloud shadow, 255 - no data	Normalised difference snow index (%)

More information

More information about the HR-S&I snow production workflows that highlights the dependencies between the diferent products and how they are derived can be found here.

Representative Images

On-ground fractional snow cover(%) On Ground, 23rd April 2020, Innsbruck, AT.

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