Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1995-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1995-2026
Data description article
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17 Mar 2026
Data description article |  | 17 Mar 2026

ChinaAI-FSC: a comprehensive AI-ready MODIS fractional snow cover dataset for China (2000–2022)

Jinliang Hou, Mingkai Zhang, Xiaohua Hao, Jifu Guo, Peng Dou, Ying Zhang, and Chunlin Huang

Data sets

ChinaAI-FSC: A Comprehensive AI-Ready MODIS Fractional Snow Cover Dataset for China (2000-2022) Jinliang Hou et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17707386

ChinaAI-FSC: A comprehensive AI-ready MODIS fractional snow cover dataset for China (2000-2022) Jinliang Hou et al. https://doi.org/10.11888/Cryos.tpdc.303034

Model code and software

AI-Ready-China-FSC Jinliang Hou https://github.com/houjin0503/AI-Ready-China-FSC

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Short summary
ChinaAI-FSC provides the first large-scale, artificial intelligence (AI)-ready fractional snow cover dataset for China, covering 2000–2022. It integrates observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Landsat, and Sentinel-2 satellites and is carefully processed to enable training and evaluation of AI models and large-scale snow mapping. This dataset improves snow monitoring accuracy and supports reproducible research on climate and hydrological processes.
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