Updated 2013-02-02
Project intends to produce remote sensing information of sea ice and snow cover in Northern Europe. It is joined international project between ESA, GMES, Polarview and Finnish Environmental Institute. FEM uses the satellite images to follow the snow and ice melt in spring months (march-June) in Finland.
This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Completed
- Project time span
- 2009 - 2012
- Data collection
- 2009 - 2012
- Data processing
- 2009 - 2012
- Data reporting
- not specified
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- no
- References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports
- Up to date data is published graphically in Finnish Environmental Institute’s (SYKE) website on:
http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=172739&lan=fi (in Finnish) [accessed 23.11.2012]
http://wwwi4.ymparisto.fi/i4/eng/snow/2012/lumitulkinta_pv_2012_eng.html (In English) [accessed 23.11.2012]
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
Not specified
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- No
- Other institutes involved in the project
ESA (European Space Association)
GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)
Polarview