Pour contribuer à caractériser les conditions hydrométéorologiques lors de la crue torrentielle qui a frappé la Bérarde en juin, j’ai analysé une nouvelle série de cartes d’enneigement qui couvre la période 1984-2024 [1]. Grâce à la profondeur temporelle de cette série, on constate que l’altitude de la ligne de neige dans le bassin versant du […]
Our let-it-snow (LIS) processor computes the extent of the snow cover from Sentinel-2 surface reflectance (level 2 products). However, it can also compute multi-temporal composites (level 3 products) such as the snow cover duration, snow onset and snow melt out date from a time series of snow cover maps with a cloud mask. Aurore Dupuis […]
On March 2nd, the snow cover area in the Alps has reached its lowest value since 2001. Only 43% of the alpine range was covered by snow (about 82’000 square kilometers), whereas the average is 63% on the same day over the period 2001-2021. The deficit in the number of snow covered days (map below, […]
Assuming that you have downloaded from Theia and unzipped several products in the same directory. Assuming that you have a Linux OS with GNU Parallel, GDAL and OTB command line utilities installed.. Then, in your terminal, type: # Get the color table wget https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/remote_modules/let-it-snow/-/raw/75-lis-color-table-for-otb-not-updated-after-changed-nodata/hpc/LIS_SEB_style_OTB.txt # reproject all SNW raster products to a common […]
« Give me a hundred tries, I’ll never be able to spell it. » Jimmy McGill I haven’t seen the « Breaking Bad » series but I’m a huge fan of « Better Call Saul ». Both series take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With its dry, sunny weather, Albuquerque is the perfect place for a modern-day Western. Vince Gilligan, the […]
A sunny Sunday just after an exceptional late-September snowfall… That’s already a stroke of luck. But the passage of Sentinel-2 on the same day makes this weekend even more special! The snow cover map was immediately processed and distributed by the new Copernicus Snow & Ice monitoring service powered by Cesbio’s algorithms! You can explore […]
We are thinking of a new « live » product which would allow anyone to display the most recent snow observations from Sentinel-2 in a web browser. This service would simply display a composite of the latest Theia Snow products over a given time window (e.g. the past 20 days). This can be easily coded thanks to […]
France Bleu nous signale une impressionnante avalanche en Savoie près du Col du Glandon qui bloque la route Départementale 927. Les cartes d’enneigement distribuées par Theia permettent d’évaluer la présence de neige sur les routes de montagne grâce à leur haute résolution (pixel de 20 m). Une carte qui date du 09 mai (soit deux […]
Suomi/VIIRS had a nice view of snow in the Alps today, 60 years after the first TIROS image. Thanks to all space agencies for providing us great data to study snow. And thanks to Richard Essery for the tip!