Improving the snowpack monitoring in the mountainous areas of Sweden from space: a machine learning approach

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Jie Zhang, Veijo A Pohjola, Rickard Pettersson, Björn Norell, Wolf-Dietrich Marchand, Ilaria Clemenzi, David Gustafsson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2021
• Subjects: mountain; snow; satellite; GPR; machine learning; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Överuman; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfe8d; https://doaj.org/article/c44beb963c364cfe83e06e50c80c1bfa

Under a warming climate, an improved understanding of the water stored in snowpacks is becoming increasingly important for hydropower planning, flood risk assessment and water resource management. Due to inaccessibility and a lack of ground measurement networks, accurate quantification of snow water...