Retrieval of Snow Properties from Hyperspectral Data

With the availability of space imaging spectroscopy data over snow and ice-covered areas of the planet, new opportunities for snow parameter retrievals were opened. For example, PRISMA mission does not acquire images as continuously as other optical satellite missions (i.e., Sentinel-2, Landsat-8 etc.) but it allows detailed studies of the cryosphere both at mid-latitudes and at the poles in unprecedented way.In this study, we show the retrieval of snow parameters from remote sensing observations, with particular attention to snow density and snow liquid water content.