Operational Snowcover Mapping using MSG/SEVIRI Data

Author

Siljamo, Niilo ; Hyvärinen, Otto ; Koskinen, Jarkko

Author_Institution

Finnish Meteorol. Inst., Helsinki

Volume

5

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

EUMETSAT´s Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility (LSA SAF) has been producing daily snow cover product for two years with a baseline algorithm for the land areas covered by EUMETSAT´s MSG satellite´s SEVIRI instrument. This paper presents a new improved version of the algorithm which is currently used for operational snow cover product generation in the LSA SAF. Some examples of the product are presented and the product is compared to NOAA/NESDIS IMS snow cover product and the previous version of the LSA SAF snow cover product.

Keywords

hydrological techniques; remote sensing; snow; EUMETSAT; IMS; LSA SAF; Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility; MSG-SEVIRI instrument; Meteosat Second generation; NOAA; National Environmental Satellite Data & Information Service; National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration; Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager; snow cover mapping; Azimuth; Clouds; Instruments; Land surface; Meteorology; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Satellites; Snow; Sun; Snow; remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780023

Filename

4780023