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Gap-filled Fractional Snow Cover 2016-present (raster 60 m), Europe, daily

The Daily Cumulative Gap-filled Fractional Snow Cover (GFSC) product is generated on a daily basis at European scale based on synthetic aperture radar data from the Sentinel-1 constellation and optical imaging data from the Sentinel-2 constellation. The product provides the extent of the snow cover per pixel as a percentage (0% – 100%) with a spatial resolution of 60 m x 60 m.

GFSC is one of the products of the pan-European High-Resolution Water Snow & Ice portfolio (HR-WSI), which are provided at high spatial resolution from the Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 constellations data from September 1, 2016 onwards.

The GFSC product is distributed in raster files covering an area of 110 km by 110 km with a pixel size of 60 m by 60 m in UTM/WGS84 projection, which corresponds to the Sentinel-2 input L1C product tile. Each product is composed of separate files corresponding to the different layers of the product, and another metadata file.

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Date ( Publication )
2025-03-05
Edition
01.00
Identifier
copernicus_r_utm-wgs84_gfsc_k_wcd_p_2016-now_v01_r00
Identifier
da67c24d-a8b3-4b43-a321-aedf9e5f0c83
Unique resource identifier
10.2909/832c7297-a20f-4b92-8e32-1e2e1548e642

Point of contact

No information provided.
Owner
  European Commission
https://commission.europa.eu
Custodian
  Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
https://land.copernicus.eu
Publisher
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
Point of contact
  Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk
https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land cover
  • Hydrography
Keywords
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • EEA38 (from 2020)
  • United Kingdom
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • land cover
  • environmental policy
  • landscape alteration
  • ice
  • snow
  • climate change impact
  • monitoring
  • water
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Environmental inequalities
  • Water
Temporal resolution ( Temporal )
  • Daily
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.

Free, full and open access to the products and services of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is made on the conditions that:

1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services (data, software scripts, web services, user and methodological documentation and similar) to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of these products and services.

2. Where the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services have been adapted or modified by the user, the user shall clearly state this.

3. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the European Union.

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
60  m
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2025-03-05
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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
  • GeoTIFF ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
Technical documentation and data access ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource

No information provided.
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.2909/832c7297-a20f-4b92-8e32-1e2e1548e642 ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
Input data are the SAR Wet Snow (SWS) and Fractional Snow Cover (SFC) products
Source
  • Fractional Snow Cover 2016-present (raster 20 m), Europe, daily
  • cd23c4bb-b3cb-4331-bb89-93321b46f8ed
File identifier
832c7297-a20f-4b92-8e32-1e2e1548e642 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-04-23T08:07:46.067639Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

EEA Management Plan

EEA topics
Environmental inequalities Water
GEMET
climate change impact environmental policy ice land cover landscape alteration monitoring snow water
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Hydrography Land cover
Spatial scope
European

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