Copernicus HR-WS&I

Since 2019, Magellium Artal Group has been supporting the EEA in implementing the Copernicus HR - Water Snow & Ice service.

The Copernicus High Resolution Water Snow & Ice project

What is COPERNICUS?

Copernicus is a European program whose aim is to collect, process and update data on the state of the Earth. The data collected is made available to users to enable autonomous European monitoring at different scales (local, regional, global). This valuable data contributes to monitoring and managing the effects of climate change.

It is a joint initiative of theEuropean Space Agency (ESA), theEU and theEEA. Copernicus brings together six services, including the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), which combines various satellite and in situ observations to provide near-real-time information on continental surfaces.

Since July 2020, under the delegation of the EEA, the CLMS has been disseminating high spatial resolution snow and ice products over Europe (HR-WS&I), based on Sentinel-2 (S2) optical observations. They are published less than three hours after the S2 data are made available on the Copernicus Hub.

What is Magellium Artal Group's role in the Copernicus HR-WS&I project?

Since 2019, Magellium Artal Group has been supporting the EEA in the implementation of the HR-WS&I offer, particularly in implementation, operation and promotion. In September 2021, new products based on Sentinel-1 (S1) radar observations were added to the HR-WS&I catalog:

Snow: 5 products describing snow cover (snow fraction per 20m x 20m pixel, snow condition (wet/dry) per 60m x 60m pixel)
Ice: 4 products describing thesurface condition of the hydrographic network, per 20 m x 20 m pixel.

Since July 2020, this information has been accessible to all through the Copernicus🔗 portal.

magellium artal group snow and ice copernicus sentinel pyrennees — Snow cover in the Pyrenees on 27/09/2020 - fractional snow product (FSC) generated in the Magellium Earth Observation unit © European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2021, European Environment Agency (EEA)

What tools does Magellium Artal Group use for the Copernicus HR-WS&I project?

Magellium Artal Group has a wide range of tools at its disposal to carry out its mission:

DIAS (Data and Information Access Services) platform, providing a scalable computing and storage environment, as well as a centralized access point for Copernicus S1 and S2 data and HR-S&I products.
Python, OpenStack, Nomad, PostgreSQL
MAJA, Let-it-Snow, SNAP

HR-WS&I products at a glance:

550 Sentinel-2 products and 230 Sentinel-1 products
2700 HR-S&I products processed every day
5 snow products, 4 ice products
Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 archives already processed (since September 2016)
Various applications: hydrology, hydroelectricity, meteorology, security, research and development, etc.

Find out more on the Magellium Artal Group website dedicated to Earth observation.

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