Copernicus Land Snow Products
Satellite-derived pan-European and global snow monitoring products including snow cover extent, snow water equivalent, and wet/dry snow classification from Sentinel-1/3 and MODIS
land.copernicus.eu
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Pan-European 500m and global 1km, daily
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
What's inside
- Snow Cover Extent
- Snow Water Equivalent
- Wet/Dry Snow
- Snow Melting
- Daily Maps
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Melt runoff
Forecast snowmelt contributions to rivers.
Because it has: Snow Cover Extent
- 02
Glacier change
Track glacier retreat over decades.
- 03
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Cloud-free snow maps
Fill snow cover hidden by cloud with ML.
- 02
Melt-season flows
Predict melt-season river flow from snow and weather.
- 03
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
land.copernicus.eu snow products WMS/WCS
Licence: Copernicus open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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