Copernicus High Resolution Water Snow and Ice Monitoring: Wet / Dry Snow (WDS) 60m

The Wet/Dry Snow (WDS) product is generated in near real-time at European scale based on C-band SAR satellite data from the Sentinel-1 constellation within the fractional snow cover on top of canopy (FSCTOC) derived from overlapping optical satellite data from the Sentinel-2 constellation. The product provides the snow state condition (wet / dry) for surfaces covered by snow (FSCTOC >= 90%) for non-forested land areas with a spatial resolution of 60 m x 60 m. Urban areas, forest and water bodies as well as clouds and cloud shadows from the S2 based FSCTOC product of the same date are masked.
WDS is one of the products of the pan-European High-Resolution Water Snow & 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.
The WDS product is distributed in raster files covering an area of 110 km by 110 km with a pixel size of 60 m by 60 m in UTM/WGS84 projection, which corresponds to the Sentinel-2 input L1C product tile. Each product is composed of separate files corresponding to the different layers of the product, and another metadata file.