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    <title>Snow Phenology S1 and S2 2016-present (raster 60 m), Europe, annually</title>
    <shortname>Snow Phenology S1 and S2 2016-present (raster 60 m)</shortname>
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      <organizationName>Copernicus Land Monitoring Service</organizationName>
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      <electronicMailAddress>JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId>https://land.copernicus.eu/</userId>
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      <organizationName>European Environment Agency</organizationName>
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      <positionName>Point of contact</positionName>
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    <pubDate>2025-03-05</pubDate>
    <language>English</language>
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      <para>This is the metadata covering the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Snow Phenology (SPS1S2) product. It is generated once a year over high-mountain areas at European scale, based on daily cumulative Gap-Filled Fractional Snow Cover (GFSC) products calculated from Sentinel-2 optical and Sentinel-1 radar data. This product describes the snow season in terms of temporality as it provides, for each pixel, the number of days with snow cover, as well as the first and the last day of the longest observed snow period. It has a spatial resolution of 60 m x 60 m, as does the input GFSC product. Each product is composed of separate files corresponding to the different layers of the product, and another metadata file." The product is also available in another projection as tiles aligned with the Pan-European High-Resolution Layers in the European grid (ETRS89 LAEA - EPSG: 3035) at 60 m x 60 m and 100 m x 100 m. SP S2+S2 is one of the products of the pan-European High-Resolution Water Snow &amp; Ice portfolio (HR-WSI), which are provided at high spatial resolution from the Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 constellations data from September 1, 2016 onwards.</para>
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      <keyword>Land cover</keyword>
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      <keyword>EEA38 (from 2020)</keyword>
      <keyword>United Kingdom</keyword>
      <keywordThesaurus>Continents, countries, sea regions of the world</keywordThesaurus>
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    <keywordSet>
      <keyword>Climate change impact</keyword>
      <keyword>Ice</keyword>
      <keyword>Land cover</keyword>
      <keyword>Environmental policy</keyword>
      <keyword>Snow</keyword>
      <keyword>Water</keyword>
      <keyword>Monitoring</keyword>
      <keyword>Landscape alteration</keyword>
      <keywordThesaurus>GEMET</keywordThesaurus>
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      <keyword>European</keyword>
      <keywordThesaurus>Spatial scope</keywordThesaurus>
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      <para>The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.</para>
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      <licenseName>No limitations to public access</licenseName>
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        <onlineDescription>EEA geospatial data catalogue</onlineDescription>
        <url>https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/5c6763f3-834c-4b9a-ba3a-bc3c14f85875?language=all</url>
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    <distribution>
      <online>
        <onlineDescription>Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (requires authentication)</onlineDescription>
        <url>https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/snow/high-resolution-snow-phenology#download</url>
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    <coverage>
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        <geographicDescription>Europe</geographicDescription>
        <boundingCoordinates>
          <westBoundingCoordinate>-32.00</westBoundingCoordinate>
          <eastBoundingCoordinate>46.00</eastBoundingCoordinate>
          <northBoundingCoordinate>72.00</northBoundingCoordinate>
          <southBoundingCoordinate>27.00</southBoundingCoordinate>
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            <altitudeMaximum />
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      <temporalCoverage>
        <rangeOfDates>
          <beginDate>
            <calendarDate>2016-09-01</calendarDate>
          </beginDate>
          <endDate>
            <calendarDate>2017-08-30</calendarDate>
          </endDate>
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    <contact>
      <organizationName>European Commission</organizationName>
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        <surName />
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      <positionName>Owner</positionName>
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      <userId>https://commission.europa.eu/</userId>
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    <contact>
      <organizationName>Copernicus Land Monitoring Service</organizationName>
      <individualName>
        <givenName />
        <surName />
      </individualName>
      <positionName>Custodian</positionName>
      <electronicMailAddress>JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId>https://land.copernicus.eu/</userId>
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    <contact>
      <organizationName>European Environment Agency</organizationName>
      <individualName>
        <givenName />
        <surName />
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      <positionName>Publisher</positionName>
      <electronicMailAddress>sdi@eea.europa.eu</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId>https://www.eea.europa.eu/en</userId>
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    <contact>
      <organizationName>Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk</organizationName>
      <individualName>
        <givenName />
        <surName />
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      <positionName>Point of contact</positionName>
      <electronicMailAddress>JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu</electronicMailAddress>
      <userId>https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk</userId>
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      <methodStep>
        <description>
          <para>Input data are the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data as well as the Gap Filled Fractional Snow Cover (GFSC) product.</para>
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          <para>Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (2025).Snow Phenology S1 and S2 2016-present (raster 60 m), Europe, annually. European Environment Agency https://doi.org/10.2909/5c6763f3-834c-4b9a-ba3a-bc3c14f85875</para>
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