High-Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring; Fractional Snow Cover

Short description

The daily cumulative Gap-filled Fractional Snow Cover (GFSC) product is a more complete version of the FSC product; gap-filled both at a spatial and temporal scale.

Band information

Band Name Sample Type Expected Values Description
GF UINT 8 0-100%, 205 - cloud or cloud shadow, 255 - no data Fractional snow cover (%)
QC UINT8 0 - high quality, 1 - medium quality, 2 - low quality, 3 - minimal quality, 205 - cloud or cloud shadow, 255 - no data Fractional snow cover quality layer

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

GFSC, 23rd April 2020, Innsbruck, AT Daily cumulative Gap-filled Fractional Snow Cover - Fractional snow cover, 23rd April 2020, Innsbruck, AT.