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

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418146

Filename

5418146