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Snow Covered Area

The Snow Covered Area product is based on a Normalized Difference Snow Index(NDSI), which is similar to NDVI, but exploits different bands in the equation (Equation 3),namely Green (Band 4) and Short Wavelength Near-infrared (SWNIR, Band 6).

It isimportant to note that the Band 6 sensor on MODIS Aqua malfunctioned shortly after launch,so Snow Covered Area from the Aqua sensor is calculated using Bands 3 and 7.

This mayintroduce errors in identifying snow in vegetated areas, as the use of Band 7 results in falsesnow detection. For this reason the MODIS Terra product has been provided for the CAFF-system.

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Alternate title
MOD10CM
Date ( Publication )
2014-12-16
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Date ( Creation )
Identifier
https://geo.abds.is/geonetwork/26975017-3375-42d3-bca0-d78adceadaa1
Identifier
http://geo.abds.is/geonetwork26975017-3375-42d3-bca0-d78adceadaa1
Point of contact
  Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
Borgir, Nordurslod , Akureyri , 600 , Iceland
+354 462 3350
Credit
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF www.caff.is) working group of the Arctic Council
Point of contact
  Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)
Borgir, Nordurslod , Akureyri , 600 , Iceland
+354 4623350
http://caff.is
Hours of service
08:00 - 16:00 GMT
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular
Keywords
  • snow cover
  • CAFF
Keywords
  • MOD10CM
  • NDSI
  • remote sensing
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Hydrography
  • Orthoimagery
  • Land cover
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / 102017
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2019_SnowCoveredArea ( OGC:WMS )

2019_SnowCoveredArea

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Snow_Covered-Area.jpg ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

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Date ( Publication )
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26975017-3375-42d3-bca0-d78adceadaa1 XML
Metadata language
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Date stamp
2023-02-13T14:01:21
Metadata standard version
1.2
Point of contact
  Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) -
www.abds.is
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Hydrography Land cover Orthoimagery

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