Daily MODIS snow cover maps for the European Alps from 2002 onwards at 250m horizontal resolution along with a nearly cloud-free version

<p><strong>NOTE: We discovered some errors in the data for images after February 2019. They will be fixed in version &gt;= 1.1.x, until then, usage of the data after Feb 2019 is not advised. The rest of the data is fine.</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This is the data to the same-titled Data paper, which can be found at <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/data5010001">https://doi.org/10.3390/data5010001</a>.</p> <p>Along with auxilary files for the <a href="https://gitlab.inf.unibz.it/earth_observation_public/modis_snow_cloud_removal">cloudremoval package</a>, and example scripts on how to access chunks of the data.</p> <p>The files contain:</p> <ol> <li><strong>python-cloudremoval-aux-data.tar.gz</strong> : auxilary data (altitude, aspect, ...) to run the cloudremoval module which can be found at <a href="https://gitlab.inf.unibz.it/earth_observation_public/modis_snow_cloud_removal">https://gitlab.inf.unibz.it/earth_observation_public/modis_snow_cloud_removal</a></li> <li><strong>python-example-data-access.html </strong>: Example script how to access parts of the data using python</li> <li><strong>R-example-data-access.html</strong> : Example script how to access parts of the data using R</li> <li><strong>zenodo_01_original.tar.gz</strong> : time series of snow cover maps, developed at the Institute for Earth Observation, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy. More information in same-title Data paper (<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/data5010001">https://doi.org/10.3390/data5010001</a>), and for algorithm at <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5010110">https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5010110</a>.</li> <li><strong>zenodo_02_cloudremoval.tar.gz</strong> : time series of cloud filtered maps, based on 2. above, using code mentioned in 1. More information in same-titled Data paper.</li> </ol> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The maps are GeoTIFF with integer based values:</p> <p>0 = no data; 1 = snow; 2 = land; 3 = cloud; 4&amp;5 = water bodies / nodata</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Version history:</p> <p>1.0.0 : initial upload<br> 1.0.1 : changes after revision of Data paper<br> 1.0.2 : added example scripts</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>