Satellite snow maps help reindeer herders adapt to a changing Arctic


A reindeer herd in Sweden
 
A reindeer herd of a Sámi family in Sweden.

Cloud-free snow map
 
Example cloud-free snow map covering northern Norway produced using multi-temporal (up to the previous 7 days) and multi-sensor (MODIS and Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR)) satellite data.

Anders Oskal
 
Anders Oskal, the Director of the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR), at the ESA stand at the Arctic Frontiers conference held in Tromsø in January 2009.

Snow depth map of the Eurasia
 
Assimilated snow depth map of Eurasia.



Release date: 3 December 2009