The 1st ESA DUE GlobSnow User Workshop was held in Innsbruck 12 - 13 January 2010

Overview

The User WorkShop 1 of the ESA DUE GlobSnow project was held at Hofburg, Innsbruck, Austria, during 12-13 January 2010. The purpose of the meeting was to present the work carried out during the first phase of the project, including: the algorithm evaluation results for Snow Extent (SE) and Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) products, the selected GlobSnow algorithms and the prototype datasets. A key objective was to openly discuss the results obtained and determine the direction of the project in the future with the user community. In addition to the presentations given by the GlobSnow consortium, the User community gave presentations on several different topics concerning the GlobSnow and satellite-based snow and cryosphere monitoring efforts in general.

The minutes of the meeting give an overview on the presentations and the discussion that took place.

The organizers can be contacted via email for further information:
Dr. Kari Luojus (firstname.lastname@fmi.fi)
Dr. Thomas Nagler (firstname.lastname@enveo.at)
Dr. Bojan Bojkov (firstname.lastname@esa.int)

Agenda

Tuesday 12 January 2010

13:30 Welcome(ENVEO)/Aim of the Workshop(ESA)
13:40 Overview on GlobSnow Project: Key questions to be resolved (coverage, aggregation, validation, towards a future ECV) (Jouni Pulliainen, FMI) (30 min)
14:10 WCRP and snow: yes and no(w)

Vladimir Ryabinin, WMO/WCRP(invited)

14:30 Overview on the GlobSnow SE Product (Rune Solberg, NR) (45 min)

Brief overview of GlobSnow work towards a global SE product
The prototype SE product for Europe
Evaluation and selection of algorithms
Prototype processing chain
Detailed explanation of the product, including examples
Towards a global product - open issues and global validation

15:15 GlobSnow SAR Study(Thomas Nagler, ENVEO) (15 min)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Overview on the GlobSnow SWE Product(Kari Luojus, FMI) (45 min)

Detailed explanation of the product, including examples
The prototype SWE product for Northern Hemisphere 2003 to 2008
The GlobSnow SWE algorithm
The validation results (briefly, additional details on Wednesday)

16:45 Overview of the GlobSnow Near Real Time processing (Andreas Wiesmann, Gamma)
17:00 Future missions for Cryosphere (Michael Kern, ESA/ESTEC (invited))
17:30 Ice Breaker

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Algorithms session Chair: Michael Kern(ESA/ESTEC)
9:00 Details on Snow Extent Product

SCAmod-method for Fractional snow cover mapping(Sari Metsämäki, SYKE) (20 min)

Principle of the method
Validation against ground truth
Expansion of the application area using GlobCover data

Additional details on the SE Validation work (Rune Solberg, NR) (20 min)

Validation on mountainous regions

Investigating the Cloud masking approaches for GlobSnow SE product(Thomas Nagler, ENVEO) (20 min)
Potential GlobSnow SE aggregation product(Rune Solberg, NR) (20 min)