Terrestrial Photography ApplicationS on Snow covEr in Svalbard (PASSES) Evolution of the fractional snow cover in the Broggerdalen area using ground-based cameras located at the Climate Change Tower. Development of a new snow product focused on the estimation of the fraction of snow cover in selected sites at different spatial resolutions. All the available data obtained from public repositories such as the digital elevation model of Svalbard, the webcam imageries in Svalbard and satellite products from Landsat, Sentinel and MODIS missions, will be integrated in order to estimate the fraction of snow cover, at different spatial resolutions, for each satellite mission, computed at different sites in Svalbard islands.

Snow Core Data (SnowCorD) Project start: 2021-05-01 - end: 2025-12-31 The estimation of the Fractional Snow-Covered Area in the Brøgger Peninsula ensambling processed imagery located at different sites with different spatial resolutions. This dataset will be aimed to support the estimation of cryospheric information using remotely sensed data. The Ensembled FSCA retrievals are obtained, at the moment, by terrestrial photography applications established at the Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, at the Zeppelin observatory and at the Gruvebadet Snow Research Site in the Kongsfjorden area.

terrestrial Photography ApplicationS on Snow covEr in Svalbard: Evolution of the fractional snow cover in the Broggerdalen area using ground-based cameras located at the Climate Change Tower in the Svalbard archipelago. Project Start date: 2018-04-15 End date: 2023-12-31

The automated nivological station was installed in November 2020 in a flat area over the tundra about 80 meters far from the Gruvebadet Atmospheric Laboratory and nearby a snow sampling site from where weekly snow samples are collected for chemical analysis. Sensors have been calibrated by their companies before installation and are connected to a datalogger for continuous acquisition. For all the parameters, data are logged with 10-minute time resolution and then averaged over 1 hour. This activity is carried out by the Aldo Pontremoli Centre part of the Joint Research Agreement ENI-CNR.