C035
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow

Session ID#: 76512

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 that 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 remote sensing of the 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, 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.
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Kat Bormann, University of New South Wales, Pasadena, CA, United States; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Carrie Vuyovich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of New Hampshire, Hanover, NH, United States and Andrew R Hedrick, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Primary Liaison:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
An Overview of Monitoring Winter Extreme Events using Remote Sensing and Modeling in the Arctic: an Ecological Perspective for Ungulates Habitat Characterization (486552)
Alexandre Langlois1, Cheryl-Ann Johnson2, Caroline Dolant1, Chloé Martineau3, Ludovic Brucker4 and Alain Royer1, (1)University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Landscape Science and Technology Division, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada, (4)NASA GSFC / GESTAR USRA, Cryospheric Sciences Lab., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
SnowAPP Campaign – Simultaneous Measurements of Micro/Macro-physical Properties of Snow and Electromagnetic Signal from Visible Down to Microwave Wavelengths (490020)
Henna-Reetta Hannula1, Roberta Pirazzini1, Kati Anttila1, Teruo Aoki2, Laurent Arnaud3, Teijo Arponen1, Anna Kontu1, Leena Leppänen1, Juha Lemmetyinen1, Pedro Fidel Espin Lopez4, Amy Macfarlane5, Outi Meinander1, Masashi Niwano2, Ines Ollivier3, Marco Pasian4, Jouni Peltoniemi6, Ghislain Picard3, Petri Räisänen1, Jonas Svensson1 and Jianwei Yang7, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (3)UGA-CNRS, Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE), Grenoble, France, (4)University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, (5)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (6)Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Masala, Finland, (7)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
The value of long-term (40 years) airborne gamma radiation SWE record: Evaluating CONUS SWE datasets by seasonal snow and land cover classifications (Invited) (492686)
Eunsang Cho, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Jennifer M Jacobs, University of New Hampshire, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NH, United States and Carrie Vuyovich, University of New Hampshire, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Assessment of snow cover change and its impact on surface runoff due to climate change in the Himalayas (495324)
Arun Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22904, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville VA, United States
 
Processing and Calibration of Continuous Snowpack Measurements using the WBSCAT Polarimetric Microwave Scatterometer During Winter 2018-2019 at Davos Switzerland (506886)
Charles L Werner1, Rafael Caduff1, Urs Wegmüller1, Andreas Wiesmann1, Othmar Frey1, Oliver Cartus1 and Martin Suess2, (1)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland, (2)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands
 
A study on snow depth distribution in mountainous regions at peak based on multiple measurements by airborne laser scanning (512722)
Terumasa Nishihara, Civil Engineering Research Institute for Cold region, PWRI, Sapporo, Japan and Atsushi Tanise, PWRI Public Works Research Instituite, CERI Civil Engineering Research Institute for cold region, Sapporo, Japan
 
Spatial Patterns of Snow Depth Observed from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Mounted LiDAR System (512918)
Adam George Hunsaker1, Jennifer M Jacobs2, Michael W Palace3, Franklin Sullivan4, Elizabeth Burakowski5 and Christina Herrick4, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Analyzing data from snow pillows and courses for comparison with the Airborne Snow Observatory and the iSnobal model (518709)
Jeff Dozier, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Grayson M Dozier, Cal Poly, Anthropology & Geography, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States and Thomas H Painter, UCLA, JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Stereo2SWE: Snow depth time series from very-high-resolution stereo satellite imagery (519142)
David E Shean1, J. Michelle Hu2, Shashank Bhushan2, Oleg Alexandrov3, Scott T Henderson4, Christopher A Hiemstra5 and Lundquist Jessica6, (1)University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Robotics Group, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)US Army Corps of Engineers Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, United States
 
X-&Ku-band Radar SWE Retrieval Improvement: Estimation of the Background Scattering of the Soil Interface with C-band Radar Observations (534639)
Jiyue Zhu, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Leung Tsang, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Do-Hyuk DK Kang, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, Edward J Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Chris Derksen, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada and Joshua M King, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
On GPS-based determination of snow cover properties (Invited) (538162)
Franziska Koch1, Patrick Henkel2, Florian Appel3, Lino Schmid4, Achille Capelli4, Heike Bach3, Matthias Bernhardt1, Juerg Schweizer4 and Wolfram Mauser5, (1)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute for Hydrology and Water Management, Vienna, Austria, (2)ANavS GmbH, Munich, Germany, (3)Vista Remote Sensing GmbH, Munich, Germany, (4)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (5)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Geography, Munich, Germany
 
Applying Multisensor Data Fusion via the Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model (STARFM) for Improved Monitoring of Seasonal Snowpack. (551460)
Allison Nicole Vincent1, Alejandro N Flores1, Nancy F Glenn2, Hans-Peter Marshall3 and Caroline Nash4, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (4)Boise State University, Boise, United States
 
Exploring the impact of explicit assimilation of dust-on snow albedo information on snow estimates from a snow reanalysis framework (551859)
Yiwen Fang, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Steven A Margulis, UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Yufei Liu, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Preliminary results from SWESARR SnowEx Snow-off Flights (552746)
Batuhan Osmanoglu1, Rafael F Rincon1, Ludovic Brucker2, Paul Racette1, Derek l Hudson1 and The SWESARR Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC / GESTAR USRA, Cryospheric Sciences Lab., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Multi-Sensor Assessment of Changes in Seasonal Snow Cover Persistence in the Columbia River Basin Using Cloud Computing Platforms (559707)
Ben Roberts-Pierel, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Investigating Consistency In Snow Distribution Using A Six-year Airborne Lidar Time Series Of Snow Depth In Tuolumne Basin, California, USA (561594)
Megan Mason1, Hans-Peter Marshall2, Ernesto Trujillo3, Danny G Marks3, Nancy F Glenn4, Andrew R Hedrick3 and USDA-ARS, Modeling Team: Scott Havens, Micah Johnson, Mark Robertson, Kaylee Gross, Zachary Uhlmann, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, (4)Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States
 
Retrieving Snow Depth with Structure from Motion from airborne high-resolution imagery (565054)
Joachim Meyer, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and David E Shean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Uncertainty Propagation of Snowfall and Atmospheric Forcings in Modeled Seasonal Snowpack Evolution during SnowEx 2017 — Implications for Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow and Data Assimilation (567096)
Yueqian Cao, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States
 
Assessing Plot Scale Variation in Snow Depth and SWE at Very Hight Resolution using Structure from Motion (570326)
Hannah Peterson and McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Monitoring Seasonal Snow Dynamics In The Eastern Himalayas, India (571305)
Juna Probha Devi, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Center for the Environment, Guwahati, India, Chandan Mahanta, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Civil Engineering, Guwahati, India and Anamika Barua, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, North Guwahati, India
 
Quantifying the Snow Water Storage of the Överuman Catchment in Northern Sweden: Challenges and Implications (586013)
Jie Zhang, Veijo A Pohjola and Rickard Pettersson, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
 
Seasonal snow water equivalent remote sensing by Ku band spaceborne scatterometers (587022)
Chuan Xiong, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China and Jiancheng Shi, RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Multi-platform, multi-sensor snow surface properties for energy balance and model validation (592122)
Karl Rittger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Ned Bair, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, William Kleiber, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Keith N Musselman, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Kathryn J Bormann, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Aubrey L Dugger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Hoi Ga Veronica Chan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Mary J. Brodzik, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, William P. Doan, US Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division, Portland, OR, United States, Balaji Rajagopalan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Thomas H Painter, UCLA, JIFRESSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Assessing High-Resolution CubeSat Imagery and Machine Learning for Detailed, High Resolution Snow-Covered Area (594007)
Anthony Cannistra1, Amanda Tan1, Annie Bryant Burgess2 and Nicoleta C Cristea1, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, Portland, OR, United States
 
Retrieval of soil relative permittivity using passive microwave brightness temperatures (603573)
Leanne Mary Wake1, Melody J Sandells2, Nick Rutter1, Juha Lemmetyinen3, Richard Essery4 and Anna Kontu3, (1)Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (2)CORES Science and Engineering Limited, Burnopfield, United Kingdom, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (4)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
Machine Learning Classification and Derived Snow Metrics from High-Resolution Multispectral Satellite Imagery in Complex Terrain (607613)
J. Michelle Hu and David E Shean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Snow Depth Maps of Multiple Field Sites on Grand Mesa, CO produced via UAV Photogrammetry (616173)
Manuel Salgado, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Andrew George Klein, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Application of UAVs to measure snowpack using structure from motion analysis over varying terrain and vegetation in Coastal British Columbia. (618031)
Bill C Floyd1, Will McInnes2, Keith Holmes3, Alex Cebulski4, Trevor Dickinson5, Stewart Butler1, Derek Heathfield2 and Brian Menounos6, (1)Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC, Canada, (2)Hakai Institute, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Hakai Insititute, Victoria, Canada, (4)Vancouver Island University, Geography, Nanaimo, Canada, (5)Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada, (6)Univ Northen British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
 
A Comparison of WorldView and MODIS in Detecting Fractional Snow Cover over High Mountain Asia (619449)
Chelsea Ackroyd1, McKenzie Skiles1, Karl Rittger2, Summer Rupper3 and Keith N Musselman4, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
Exploration of C-band synthetic aperture RADAR (SAR) backscatter dependence on snow-mass related information (621506)
Jongmin Park, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Barton A Forman, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Bias Correction of Snow Water Equivalent Estimates in near real-time over the California Sierra Nevada (622828)
Kehan Yang, University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Geography, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States and Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Applications of the Recurrent Snowmelt Pattern Derived Using Principal Component Analysis of Multi-Year Remotely Sensed Snow Cover From MODIS (624351)
Russell J Qualls and Craig Woodruff, University of Idaho, Biological Engineering, Moscow, ID, United States
 
Airborne snow accumulation estimates from L-Band InSAR during the NASA SnowEx 2017 campaign and validation with airborne LiDAR and in-situ observations (625211)
Hans-Peter Marshall1, Elias J Deeb2, Marco Lavalle3, Kelly Elder4, Ludovic Brucker5, Christopher A Hiemstra6, Kathryn J Bormann7, Thomas H Painter3, Richard R Forster8 and Cathleen Jones9, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)NASA GSFC / GESTAR USRA, Cryospheric Sciences Lab., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)US Army Corps of Engineers Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (7)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (9)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
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