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MODIS Aqua Snow Cover Daily (MYD10A1)
Aqua MODIS daily global snow cover, snow albedo, and fractional snow cover at 500m resolution providing critical snowpack monitoring data for water resources management
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At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global, 500m resolution, daily, 2002-present
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Space Agency
What's inside
- Snow Cover
- Snow Albedo
- Fractional Snow Cover
- Daily Composites
- Snowpack Monitoring
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
- 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.
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