Title :
Merging flat/forest and mountainous snow products for extended European area
Author :
Lahtinen, Panu ; Ertürk, Aydin Gürol ; Pulliainen, Jouni ; Koskinen, Jarkko
Author_Institution :
Finnish Meteorol. Inst., Helsinki, Finland
Abstract :
In the frame of EUMETSAT Satellite Application Faculty on Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF) project, two different approaches have been developed for snow products. One is focused on flat/forested areas and has been developed by Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) (originally for EUMETSAT Land-SAF), and the other one by Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS) for mountainous areas. Snow cover over mountainous areas and over flat/forest areas show completely different physical properties, thus usage of two separate algorithms makes it possible to get better results. On the other hand, for users it would be easier to have only one unified product. This paper presents the method used in the merging of the two Snow Recognition products.
Keywords :
geophysical signal processing; hydrological techniques; remote sensing; sensor fusion; snow; EUMETSAT H-SAF project; Finnish Meteorological Institute; Satellite Application Faculty on Hydrology and Water Management; Turkish State Meteorological Service; extended European area; flat area snow product; forest area snow product; mountainous area snow product; snow cover; snow product merging; snow recognition products; Merging; Snow; Snow; product merging; remote sensing;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3394-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3395-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418146
