C11B:
Remote Sensing of Seasonal Snow I


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Session ID#: 60733

Session Description:
Over a billion people globally depend on snowmelt runoff to meet water demands, predominantly from snow that accumulates annually in mid-latitude mountains. Decades of observations show this natural reservoir is at risk; snow water equivalent and snow extent are declining; even as growing populations rely more on snow water resources and the vast infrastructural networks that have been set up to store and transport runoff. This session will focus on monitoring seasonal snow and snow water resources from spaceborne and airborne (manned and unmanned aircraft) platforms. Presentations will address a range of topics including instrument and platform development, targeted campaigns, new and historical observations, analysis methods and techniques, multi-sensor combinations, scientific and operational applications, model integration and validation, and results from recent campaigns. We welcome submissions from a diversity of sensor types and measurement methods (e.g. radar, lidar, imaging spectroscopy, photogrammetry) and applications.
Primary Convener:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Andrew R Hedrick, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Boise, ID, United States and Oliver Wigmore, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Chairs:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Oliver Wigmore, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0772 Distribution [CRYOSPHERE]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Estimation of Seasonal Snow Water Equivalent Using Landsat Observations (Invited) (345803)
Manuela Girotto, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Laurie Huning, California State University, Long Beach, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, Long Beach, United States, Steven A Margulis, UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Gonzalo Cortés, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States
Monitoring the seasonal snow in mountain regions using Sentinel-2 (Invited) (354132)
Simon Gascoin, CNRS, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere (CESBIO), Paris Cedex 16, France, Manuel Grizonnet, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, Marie Dumont, Météo-France -CNRS CNRM/CEN, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, Olivier Hagolle, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France and Ghislain Picard, UGA,CNRS, Institut des Geosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) UMR 5001, Grenoble, France
Optical satellite retrievals of snow physical properties in complex terrain (367689)
Maxim Lamare1,2, Clément Delcourt1,2, François Tuzet2, Fanny Larue1, Jesus Revuelto3, Laurent Arnaud4, Ghislain Picard1 and Marie Dumont2, (1)UGA,CNRS, Institut des Geosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) UMR 5001, Grenoble, France, (2)Météo-France -CNRS CNRM/CEN, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (3)Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain, (4)UGA-CNRS, Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE), Grenoble, France
Advances in Operational Monitoring of Snow in the Alps using Airborne LiDAR Data (441103)
Tobias Jonas1, Adam H Winstral1, Jeffery Deems2, Kathryn J Bormann3 and Thomas H Painter3, (1)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (2)Airborne Snow Observatories Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Snow Depth Changes Over the Alps Using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data (447045)
Surendar Manickam1, Matthias Braun1 and Ana Paula Barros2, (1)University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, (2)University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Mapping snow mass in the Northern Hemisphere mountains with Sentinel-1 (384289)
Hans Lievens, Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, Matthias Demuzere, Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Gent, Belgium, Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy, KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium and Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Mapping Snow Depth From Ka-band Interferometry (463233)
Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States, Brian Pollard, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Monrovia, CA, United States, Konstantinos Andreadis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, James Carswell, Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc, Barnstable, United States, Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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