Affiliation:
1. Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Peking University, 5 Summer Palace Road, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract
Detailed snow cover maps are essential for estimating the earth’s energy balance and hydrological cycle. Mapping the snow cover across spatially extensive and topographically complex areas with less or no cloud obscuration is challenging, but the SNPP-VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB) nighttime light data offers a potential solution. This paper aims to map snow cover distribution at 750 m resolution across the diverse 1,664,900 km2 of Xinjiang, China, based on SNPP-VIIRS DNB radiance. We implemented a swarm intelligent optimization technique Krill Herd algorithm, which finds the optimal threshold value by taking Otsu’s method as the objective function. We derived SNPP-VIIRS DNB snow maps of 14 consecutive scenes in December 2021, compared our snow-covered area estimations with those from MODIS and AMSR2 standard snow cover products, and generated composite snow maps by merging MODIS and SNPP-VIIRS DNB data. Results show that SNPP-VIIRS DNB snow maps are capable of providing reliable snow cover maps superior to MODIS and AMSR2, with an overall accuracy level of 84.66%. The composite snow maps at 500 m spatial resolution provided 55.85% more information on snow cover distribution than standard MODIS products and achieved an overall accuracy of 84.69%. Our study demonstrated the feasibility of snow cover detection in Xinjiang based on SNPP-VIIRS DNB, which can serve as a supplementary dataset for MODIS estimations where clouded pixels are present.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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