Arctic SDI catalogue
Fractional Snow Cover (raster 20m) 2016-present, Europe, daily, Jul. 2020
The Copernicus Fractional Snow Cover (FSC) product is generated in near real-time for the entire EEA38 and the United Kingdom, based on optical satellite data from the Sentinel-2 constellation. The product provides the fraction of the surface covered by snow at the top of canopy (FSC-TOC) and on ground (FSC-OG) per pixel as a percentage (0% – 100%) with a spatial resolution of 20 m x 20 m.
FSC is one of the products of the pan-European High-Resolution Snow & Ice service (HR-S&I), which are provided at high spatial resolution (20 m x 20 m and 60 m x 60 m), from the Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 constellations data from September 1, 2016 onwards. Visit https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/biophysical-parameters/high-resolution-snow-and-ice-monitoring to get more information on the different HR-S&I products (Snow products : FSC, WDS, SWS, GFSC, and PSA. Ice products : RLIE and ARLIE)
The FSC product is distributed in raster files covering an area of 110 km by 110 km with a pixel size of 20 m by 20 m in UTM/WGS84 projection, which corresponds to the Sentinel-2 input L1C product tile. Each product is composed of seven separate files corresponding to the different layers of the product, and another metadata file.
Simple
- Date ( Creation )
- 2020-07-07
- Date ( Publication )
- 2020-07-07
- Edition
- 01.00
- Identifier
- copernicus_r_utm-wgs84_20_m_hrsi-fsc_p_2016-now_v01_r00
- Identifier
- DAT-244-en
- Unique resource identifier
- 10.2909/3e2b4b7b-a460-41dd-a373-962d032795f3
Point of contact
Point of contact
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
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- Land cover
- Keywords
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
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- EEA38 (from 2020)
- United Kingdom
- Keywords
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- GEMET ( Theme )
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- monitoring
- landscape alteration
- ice
- land cover
- climate change impact
- snow
- Spatial scope ( Theme )
- EEA topics ( Theme )
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- Land use
- Temporal resolution ( Temporal )
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- Five days
- EEA Management Plan ( Theme )
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- 2020 3.6.7
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Access to data is based on a principle of full, open and free access as established by the Copernicus data and information policy Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013. This regulation establishes registration and licensing conditions for GMES/Copernicus users.
Free, full and open access to this data set is made on the conditions that:
1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus dedicated data and Copernicus service information to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of that data and information.
2. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the Union.
3. Where that data or information has been adapted or modified, the user shall clearly state this.
4. The data remain the sole property of the European Union. Any information and data produced in the framework of the action shall be the sole property of the European Union. Any communication and publication by the beneficiary shall acknowledge that the data were produced “with funding by the European Union”.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 20 m
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2016-09-01
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- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32625
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32626
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32627
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32628
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32629
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32630
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32631
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32632
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32633
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32634
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32635
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32636
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32637
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:32638
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF
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1.0
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GeoTIFF
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1.0
)
- OnLine resource
- Cryo portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- https://cryo.land.copernicus.eu/wms/FSC?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0 ( OGC:WMS )
- OnLine resource
- REST API ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- WEKEO portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- Product user manual ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- Algorithm theoretical basis document ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- HDA API (Harmonized Data Access (WEkEO) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- https://doi.org/10.2909/3e2b4b7b-a460-41dd-a373-962d032795f3 ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date ( Publication )
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Statement
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The validation of algorithm for FSC retrieval is fully described in the Quality Assessment Report:
https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/hrsi-snow-qar
The evaluation is based on various remote-sensing reference datasets and will be completed at the end of 2020.
More information about this product can be found in the Product User Manual here: https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/hrsi-snow-pum.
- File identifier
- 3e2b4b7b-a460-41dd-a373-962d032795f3 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-08-29T11:36:27.94Z
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
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