High-Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring; SAR Wet Snow in high mountains - Wet Snow classification in high Mountains areas
Short description
The SAR Wet Snow (SWS) product provides information on the wet snow extent in high-mountain areas.
Table 1: Bands available in HR&SI SWS data collection.
| Band Name |
Sample Type |
Expected Values |
Description |
| WSM |
UINT 8 |
Refer to Table 2 |
Wet Snow classification in high Mountains areas |
| QCWSM |
UINT8 |
0 - high quality, 1 - medium quality, 2 - low quality, 3 - minimal quality, 250 - masked, 255 - no data |
WSM quality layer |
Table 2: Classification classes and colouring scheme for WSM band.
| Value |
Color |
Label |
| 1 |
|
110 - Wet snow |
| 2 |
|
125 - Dry snow or snow free or patchy snow |
| 3 |
|
200 - Radar shadow / layover / foreshortening |
| 4 |
|
210 - Water |
| 5 |
|
220 - Forest |
| 6 |
|
230 - Urban area |
| 7 |
|
240 - Non-mountain areas |
| 8 |
|
255 - No data |
More information about the HR-S&I snow production workflows that highlights the dependencies between the diferent products and how they are derived can be found
here.
Representative Images
SAR Wet Snow in high mountains - Wet Snow classification in high Mountains areas, 1st April 2021, Bormio, IT.