The abundance of remote sensing imagery available has been extensively used for
mapping snow cover extent in mountainous regions. However, previous studies have paid …

Snow cover is of high relevance for the Earth's climate system, and its variability plays a key
role in alpine hydrology, ecology, and socioeconomic systems. Measurements obtained by …

Introduction Snow is one of the most sensitive and vital natural resources. Over the years,
gradual technological progress in mapping of snow-covered areas using remote sensing …

Mapping snow cover (SC) on glaciers at the end of the ablation period provides a possibility
to rapidly obtain a proxy for their equilibrium line altitude (ELA) which in turn is a metric for …

Snow cover mapping algorithms utilizing multispectral satellite data at various spatial
resolutions are available, each treating subpixel variation differently. Past evaluations of …

The crucial role of an accurate estimation of the snow cover fraction distribution in mountain
hydrology increases in low and warm latitudes, where water scarcity makes the snowpack a …

Snow cover and its associated melt have a variety of important biological, hydrological,
economic and hazards implications, which under current global change scenarios are …

Snow cover plays an important role in biotic and abiotic environmental processes, as well as
human activities, on both regional and global scales. Due to the difficulty of in situ data …

In this paper, we focus on the attributes and limitations of four commonly-used daily
snowcover products with respect to their ability to map ephemeral snow in central and …

The extent and duration of snow cover, a critical component of the hydrologic cycle and the
global climate system, is expected to shift dramatically under climate change. Therefore …