Deliverables

The released GlobSnow deliverables: RB, GDD, DJF-v1, TS, ATD, DDF, QRR, PVAR and DJF-v2 can be downloaded from the Deliverables page.

Requirements Baseline document

The first GlobSnow deliverable Requirements Baseline has been released. The deliverable can be downloaded from the Deliverables page.

Requirements Engineering Review

The requirements engineering review (RER) meeting of the ESA GlobSnow project was held at Geneva during 3 - 4 February 2009. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and determine the requirements for the project together with the User community.

The discussions and the decisions of the RER meeting can be read from the RER minutes (K. Luojus / FMI).

Presentations by the GlobSnow consortium

• Overall description of the GlobSnow project and products
  Jouni Pulliainen (FMI)
• Description of the current state of the art in snow water equivalent (SWE) monitoring
  Kari Luojus (FMI)
• Description of the proposed GlobSnow SWE algorithms and products (NRT & historical products)
  Jouni Pulliainen (FMI)
• Description of the current state of the art in snow extent (SE) monitoring using optical sensors
  Rune Solberg (NR)
• Description of the current state of the art in SE monitoring using SAR
  Helmut Rott (ENVEO)
• Synthesis of data from optical and SAR sensors for snow monitoring: .NR/Norut multi-sensor SE methodology.
  Rune Solberg (NR)
• Availability and characteristics of EO satellite data sets for global snow mapping
  Helmut Rott (ENVEO)
• Requirements for the GlobSnow processing system
  Andreas Wiesmann (GAMMA)
• Requirements and availability validation data for SWE products
  Chris Derksen (Environment Canada)
• Requirements and availability validation data for SE products
  Sari Metsämäki (Finnish Environment Institute)

Presentations by the User Community

• Natural Resources Canada Snow Cover Requirements
  Richard Fernandes (CCRS)
• Perspective from MeteoSwiss for snow monitoring
  Nando Foppa (MeteoSwiss)
• Perspective from EEA (ETC/ACC) for snow monitoring
  Thomas Voigt (EEA)
• Perspective from UK Met. Office for snow monitoring
  Roger Saunders (UK Met. Office)