Evaluating satellite retrieved fractional snow-covered area at a high-Arctic site using terrestrial photography

• Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment
• Main Authors: Aalstad, Kristoffer, Westermann, Sebastian, Bertino, Laurent
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Norway; Svalbard; The Sentinel
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/75290; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-78365; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111618

The seasonal snow-cover is one of the most rapidly varying natural surface features on Earth. It strongly modulates the terrestrial water, energy, and carbon balance. Fractional snow-covered area (fSCA) is an essential snow variable that can be retrieved from multispectral satellite imagery. In this...