Meteorological and Snow Cover Data for Gap-Filling Satellite Products in the High Tatras

The High Tatra Mountains in Slovakia are the focus of this dataset, which integrates time-lapse photography, satellite observations, and ground-based meteorological measurements to reconstruct snow cover. It contains data from a camera trap at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory over four winter seasons (2021/22–2024/25), used to train an XGBoost model for gap-filling Sentinel and MODIS snow products. The dataset was authored by Veronika Lukasová and last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Training gap-filling models for satellite snow products based on time-lapse camera trap data.
• Validating satellite-derived snow cover estimates based on ground-based camera observations.
• Analyzing snow accumulation and melt dynamics based on meteorological forcing variables like air temperature and precipitation.
• Developing automated image-processing workflows for snow cover classification based on time-lapse photography.

Strengths

• Data spans four consecutive winter seasons (2021/22–2024/25), providing multi-year temporal coverage.
• Integrates three distinct data sources: time-lapse photography, satellite observations, and ground-based meteorological measurements.
• Includes scripts (PY files) for an automated image-processing workflow and an XGBoost-based modeling framework.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• The dataset is small (84.4 KB), suggesting it contains processed features, scripts, or summary data rather than raw imagery or extensive time series.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data was gathered from a time-lapse camera trap, satellite products (Sentinel, MODIS), and ground-based meteorological sensors at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory.

Time Range

Four winter seasons from 2021/22 to 2024/25.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 09:01:40; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia.