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Fractional Snow Covered Area raster - Land Cover Mapping, North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 2019

Metadata Updated: September 26, 2025

We compiled the Landsat Level-3 Fractional Snow Covered Area (fSCA) product (Painter et al. 2009, Selkowitz et al. 2017) for the tiles intersecting the study area for 2000–2017. The product estimates fractional snow cover for each 30-m pixel, with possible values of 0% and 15–100%. We masked all data that was not “Clear” (pixel value of 0) in the Revised Cloud Mask layer. Then we calculated the median snow cover for bimonthly periods from all the Landsat imagery for the period (e.g.,all images for 1–15 May, 2000–2017). We assigned the median snow cover fraction to the midpoint of the period (e.g., 8 May). Then we interpolated to a daily time step (e.g., a pixel that was 80% snow covered on 23 April and 20% snow covered on 8 May was estimated to 50% on 1 May). Finally, we stacked the daily observations, and extracted the last date with ≥15% snow cover as the “last snow day.”

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date September 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 26, 2025

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Harvested from DOI FWS DCAT-US

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 26, 2025
Publisher U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Maintainer
Identifier http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/fws-servcat-130645
Data First Published 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
Data Last Modified 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 010:18
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Harvest Source Title DOI FWS DCAT-US
Homepage URL https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Reference/Profile/130645
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 010:094, 010:028
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