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Annual 30 m snow dynamics (2018-2019 to 2023-2024) – Canada

This catalog contains annual 30 m spatial resolution snow dynamics metrics for each snow-year from 2018-2019 to 2023-2024 for all of Canada. We gather all Landsat and Sentinel-2 images collected over Canada and identify the status of each pixel observation on the image collection date: snow (and ice), non-snow (i.e., land, water), unclear (i.e., clouds, shadows). We built an algorithm to calculate snow cover metrics for each pixel during each winter: start date of the first (and biggest) snow period [startF, startB], end date of the last (and biggest) snow period [endL, endB], number of days with snow cover in total (or in the biggest snow period) [lengthT, lengthB], number of snow periods (i.e., separated times with multiple confirmed snow observations) [periods], and a status classification (e.g., continuous snow, snow free) [status]. We do not obtain a clear observation every day because of satellite orbit frequencies and clouds. This means that timing-based metrics are identified by the middle date between two clear observations, with uncertainty quantified as half the length of the gap (i.e., ± days) [startF_u, startB_u, endL_u, endB_u, lengthT_u, lengthB_u].

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Date ( RI_367 )
2025-10-01
Date ( RI_366 )
2025-09-24
RI_414
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;CCMEO/GEMS/CCRS - Bonney, Mitchell ( Remote Sensing Physical Scientist )
580 Booth St , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E4 ,
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • snow, snow dynamics, ice, climate, seasonal, remote sensing, Landsat, Sentinel-2, Canada
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Land cover
  • Snow
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2018-01-01
End date
2024-12-31
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3979 /
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RI_412
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;CCMEO/GEMS/CCRS - Bonney, Mitchell ( Remote Sensing Physical Scientist )
580 Booth St , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E4 ,
OnLine resource
Annual 30 m snow dynamics - SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) Application Programming Interface (API) ( HTTPS )

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OnLine resource
Annual 30 m snow dynamics - SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) browser ( HTTPS )

Dataset;GeoTIF;eng,fra

OnLine resource
User guide ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

File identifier
1ed7fdec-9a50-4fe9-aa16-78f9ee3f05bc XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
af6cc42f-ded4-44ce-b8cb-e09760064477 af6cc42f-ded4-44ce-b8cb-e09760064477
Hierarchy level
series; série RI_623
Date stamp
2026-01-09T10:05:15
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_418
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;CCMEO/GEMS/CCRS - Bonney, Mitchell ( Remote Sensing Physical Scientist )
580 Booth St , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E4 ,
 
 

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