High-Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring; Wet / Dry Snow - Snow state classification
Short description
The Wet/Dry Snow (WDS) product differentiates the snow state conditions within the snow mask defined by the FSCTOC information.
Table 1: Bands available in HR&SI SWS data collection.
| Band Name |
Sample Type |
Expected Values |
Description |
| SSC |
UINT 8 |
Refer to Table 2 |
Snow State Classification |
| QCSSC |
UINT8 |
0 - high quality, 1 - medium quality, 2 - low quality, 3 - minimal quality, 250 - masked, 255 - no data |
SSC quality layer |
Table 2: Classification classes and colouring scheme for SSC band.
| Value |
Color |
Label |
| 1 |
|
110 - Wet snow |
| 2 |
|
115 - Dry snow |
| 3 |
|
120 - Snow free or patchy snow |
| 4 |
|
200 - Radar shadow / layover / foreshortening |
| 5 |
|
205 - Cloud or cloud shadow |
| 6 |
|
210 - Water |
| 7 |
|
220 - Forest |
| 8 |
|
230 - Urban area |
| 9 |
|
255 - No data |
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
Wet / Dry Snow - Snow state classification, 1st April 2021, Bormio, IT.