Ground-penetrating radar survey results from the SnowEx20 campaign at Cameron Pass, Colorado. The data includes two-way travel time, lidar-measured snow depth, and derived snow water equivalent, density, and relative permittivity. It was produced by NSIDC_CPRD and last updated in May 2021.
Use Cases
- Model snow water equivalent distribution based on derived SWE values.
- Analyze snow density variability across a survey site based on derived density data.
- Validate remote sensing snow depth algorithms using lidar-measured snow depth.
- Study the relationship between radar travel time and snowpack properties like relative permittivity.
Strengths
- Data integrates ground-penetrating radar with terrestrial lidar scans for property derivation.
- Results are recalibrated using TLS data, which suggests improved accuracy.
- Data is sourced from two published NASA SnowEx datasets.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2021-05-27 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- NSIDC_CPRD
- Collection Method
- Ground-penetrating radar surveys recalibrated with terrestrial lidar scan data.
- Geography
- Cameron Pass, Colorado