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DOI	10.1080/10106049.2024.2313001
	A method for robust estimation of snow seasonality metrics from Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series data over Atlas Mountains scale using Google Earth Engine
	El Jabiri, Youssra; Boudhar, Abdelghani; Htitiou, Abdelaziz; Sproles, Eric A.; Bousbaa, Mostafa; Bouamri, Hafsa; Chehbouni, Abdelghani
通讯作者	El Jabiri, Y
来源期刊	GEOCARTO INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1010-6049
EISSN	1752-0762
出版年	2024
卷号	39 期号:1
英文摘要	Seasonal snow cover provides the majority of freshwater supplies for human society and natural ecosystems especially in semi-arid regions. For water resource managers, precise data regarding the spatiotemporal variability of snow cover and snow phenology is of paramount importance. Owing to the great spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the snowpack and the inaccessibility of high mountainous areas, gapless satellite remote sensing presents an unprecedented opportunity to monitor snow cover effectively and affordably on a fine scale, from different aspects, and with regular revisit time. This study derives the snow seasonality metrics (first day of snowfall, last day of snow melt; and snow cover duration) over a large semi-arid region in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. We calculate these metrics by combining over 10,000 images from Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 satellites for four hydrological years (2016-2021) to create a harmonized product with a time interval of about 3 days using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. This dense and large time series facilitates a gap-filling method to minimize and overcome the effect of cloud cover, and its assessment shows a positive correlation between the masked pixels and the interpolated ones. These methods allowed us to realize a map of the snow cover area and extract a homogeneous Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) profile over the four years whereby we were able to determine the optimal threshold to separate the presence of snow from its absence. The results showed that derived snow cover metrics provide considerable variation in both time and space, where an increase in snowpack measurement values at higher elevations can be noted. Overall, the snow duration ranges between November and April depending on the characteristics of each hydrological year. The retrieved Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 snow dates had a high level of agreement with in-situ data observations with almost a day-and-a-half delay with an overall accuracy equal to 0.96. The analysis of snow cover dynamics via GEE has offered the ability to calculate the first day of snowfall, last day of snowmelt, and snow cover duration annually at a pixel level, providing the user with the ability to track the seasonal and interannual variability in the timing of snowmelt toward a better understanding of how the hydrological cycles of higher latitude and mountainous regions are responding to climate change.
英文关键词	Snow metrics Landsat 8 Sentinel 2 Google Earth Engine cloud masking gap filling
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:001172889000001
WOS关键词	MOROCCAN HIGH-ATLAS ; SURFACE REFLECTANCE ; COVERED AREA ; SATELLITE ; PRODUCTS ; INDEX ; WATER ; NDSI ; OLI ; TM
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Remote Sensing ; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geology ; Remote Sensing ; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/403920
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	El Jabiri, Youssra,Boudhar, Abdelghani,Htitiou, Abdelaziz,et al. A method for robust estimation of snow seasonality metrics from Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series data over Atlas Mountains scale using Google Earth Engine[J],2024,39(1).
APA	El Jabiri, Youssra.,Boudhar, Abdelghani.,Htitiou, Abdelaziz.,Sproles, Eric A..,Bousbaa, Mostafa.,...&Chehbouni, Abdelghani.(2024).A method for robust estimation of snow seasonality metrics from Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series data over Atlas Mountains scale using Google Earth Engine.GEOCARTO INTERNATIONAL,39(1).
MLA	El Jabiri, Youssra,et al."A method for robust estimation of snow seasonality metrics from Landsat and Sentinel-2 time series data over Atlas Mountains scale using Google Earth Engine".GEOCARTO INTERNATIONAL 39.1(2024).