Snow Water Equivalent service

Canadian area
The Snow Water Equivalent  (SWE) monitoring service provides snow water equivalent maps, allowing hydropower producers to forecast water reserves and to estimate  production of energy.
More methodological details are given here.

                           
 Products
The delivered products are SWE maps derived from RADARSAT and ENVISAT-ASAR data. The SWE estimation map is in raster format with a pixel size of 375 m x 375 m, coded in 8 bits. Each pixel represents a range in mm of SWE values. Each class ranges 50 mm. This service is currently developed by VIASAT in Québec and has recently been tested in Norway too.

Delivery
All products are accessible online by the registered users in a protected data access mode. Data are provided in GIS compatible format.

More information: Pierre Vincent


       


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