Snow Estimation Under a Vegetation Gradient using Satellite Remote Sensing Data and Land Surface Modeling During Snowex 2017

The first NASA SnowEx campaign was held in February 2017 over Grand Mesa, Colorado, covering both open and forested areas. The Belspo SNOPOST project aims at using the collected SnowEx data to enhance snow estimates using the Level 1 remote sensing data together with land surface modeling and to document the limitations of snow remote sensing where needed. A preliminary spatiotemporal analysis of in situ and satellite remote sensing data, and modeling estimates of snow will be presented.