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ChinaAI-FSC: a comprehensive AI-ready MODIS fractional snow cover dataset for China (2000–2022)
Jinliang Hou
Heihe Remote Sensing Experimental Research Station, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Mingkai Zhang
Heihe Remote Sensing Experimental Research Station, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Xiaohua Hao
Heihe Remote Sensing Experimental Research Station, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Jifu Guo
College of Information Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Peng Dou
Heihe Remote Sensing Experimental Research Station, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Ying Zhang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Cryosphere Desert Data Center, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Heihe Remote Sensing Experimental Research Station, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Faculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China
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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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