Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-493-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-493-2019
16 Apr 2019
 | 16 Apr 2019

Theia Snow collection: high-resolution operational snow cover maps from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data

Simon Gascoin, Manuel Grizonnet, Marine Bouchet, Germain Salgues, and Olivier Hagolle

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The Sentinel-2 satellite mission allows the observation of the land surface at unprecedented resolutions (20 m every 5 days). The frequency of observations can be further increased with Landsat-8. Here we describe a new collection of snow maps made from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 and evaluate their accuracy. The data are routinely produced over several mountain areas and freely distributed via http://theia.cnes.fr. These new data could unlock advances in our understanding of mountain ecosystems.