Pan European High Resolution Snow and Ice Monitoring of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service — Sentinel 1 Based Products

Description

The EEA has been made responsible for implementing the Snow and Ice Component as part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service’s product portfolio. This call for tenders aims at the establishment of a framework service contract with an economic operator extending Europe’s High resolution Snow and Ice monitoring capabilities with products derived from active sensors on Sentinel 1, currently in orbit A and B. Pan European High Resolution Snow and Ice (S&I) activities are implemented through two separate calls for tender resulting in two separate framework service contracts. The first S&I contract, resulting from call for tenders EEA/DIS/R0/18/014, implements products based on Sentinel 2 A/B and entered into force earlier this year. The future contractor is expected to extend Europe’s High resolution S&I monitoring capabilities with products derived from active sensors on Sentinel 1, currently in orbit A and B. In detail the following extensions are expected: • Task 1: Differentiation of wet/dry snow within snow mask; • Task 2: Gap filling of Fractional Snow Cover; • Task 3: River and Lake Ice; • Task 4: Harmonisation with Copernicus Land Monitoring Service global component; • Task 5: Data dissemination/access; • Task 6: User uptake.