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

1. 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
2. Additional details on the SE Validation work (Rune Solberg, NR) (20 min)
• Validation on mountainous regions
3. Investigating the Cloud masking approaches for GlobSnow SE product(Thomas Nagler, ENVEO) (20 min)
4. Potential GlobSnow SE aggregation product(Rune Solberg, NR) (20 min)
• On an aggregation product in general
• Examples of other aggregation products
• Potential GlobSnow SE aggregation products
5. Discussions (10 min)

10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Details on Snow Water Equivalent Product

1. Additional details on the SWE Validation wor(Chris Derksen, EC) (20 min)
2. Further features of the final SWE product(Jouni Pulliainen, FMI) (20 min)
3. Possibilities for additional products(Jouni Pulliainen, FMI) (20 min)
4. Aggregation of the SWE productKari Luojus, FMI) (20 min)
5. Discussions (10 min)

12:30 Lunch

User Presentations Chair: Vladimir Ryabinin (WMO/WCRP)

14:00 Snow Monitoring in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

• Ali Khan,Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

14:15 Toward assimilation of snow data

• William Lahoz, Norwegian Institute for Air research (NILU), Norway

14:30 Polar View Snow Services and Application in Hydrology

• Florian Appel, Vista Remote Sensing in Geosciences GmbH, Germany

14:45 SnowClim - the European snow climate monitoring programme of Deutscher Wetter dienst (DWD)

• Peter Bissolli - Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany

15:00 GlobSnow product use within the ESA DUE Permafrost project

• Annette Bartsch - Vienna University of Technology, Austria

15:15 Snow products and activities in the EUMESTAT Network of Satellite Application facilities

• Lothar Schuller - EUMESTAT, Germany

15:30 Panel Discussion
16:00 Closing