Author: Charlotte Poussin

A new spatiotemporal NDSI method to maximize snow cover mapping accuracy over Switzerland Using Landsat-8 Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) snow cover datasets from the Swiss Data Cube, researchers from the University of Geneva have investigated the relation snow-NDSI with different environmental variables (i.e., elevation, land cover type and seasons) and evaluate the accuracy of …

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A mixed start to the year The year 2023 starts with new temperature records. The lack of snow is felt above 2000 meters leaving the ski resorts without snow. The reason ? Mild air masses from the west and southwest resulted in exceptionally high temperatures, especially in the Alps. According to MeteoSwiss, average daily temperatures for …

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