NERTO Synopsis: NOAA/NESDIS generates snow cover products from a variety of satellite platforms and missions. Depending on the attributes of the sensor and also the retrieval algorithm, the results can vary, especially over "challenging" surface types such as densely forested and high altitude regions, to name a few.

In this project, various satellite products on daily time scales will be compared with various reference sources, including insitu and an interactive snow cover product known as IMS - Interactive Multi-sensor snow and ice mapping systems.