2017-04-18: Documentation of the Pan-European Snow Services online

The documentation of the pan-European snow services is now available for download.

The Pan-European services "Fractional Snow Cover" and "Snow Water Equivalent" were developed during the CryoLand project, and are still provided in near real time by the service operators ENVEO and FMI, respectively. Daily products are available from the CryoLand GeoPortal (http://neso.cryoland.enveo.at/cryoland/cryoclient/).

Further, these services are currently in preparation to be integrated into the Copernicus Global Land Service (CLOPS-2).

2017-03-20: User Requirements documentation available online

The user requirements for the snow and land ice services collected during the EU FP7 project CryoLand (2011 - 2015) are now available for download.

• Full documentation of user requirements
• Publication in The Cryosphere (Malnes et al., 2015) 

We provide here three examples of scripts written in Python and IDL for automatically accessing, downloading and analysing CryoLand products.

Feel free to use and/or adapt these scripts so that you have the best benefit for your application.

Download example - implemented in Python
This example demonstrates a simple download procedure, mainly intended for automated usage e.g. to receive the most recent snow product on a daily basis.
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Download example - implemented in IDL (© ExelisVis)
Similar functionality as the Python script above, but implemented in IDL.
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Download & Analyse example - implemented in IDL
Beside a direct download functionality this script demonstrates the possibility of combining the download with an immediate data extraction and analysis. It is intended to demonstrate the possibility that users may access the CryoLand GeoPortal and directly integrate the received data (or processed results) into their existing knowledge systems.
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The Product Design Document of CryoLand, including detailed information on format and coding specifications for all provided products and associated metadata following European and International standards, can be downloaded here as PDF.

A detailed documentation of the CryoLand Service Characteristics can be downloaded here as PDF. 

Policy Brief No. 1, July 2011

Policy Brief No. 2, November 2012

Policy Brief No. 3, July 2014

An introduction how to dive into the Chills of the Planet using the CryoLand GeoPortal can be downloaded here as PDF.

Article about the CryoLand project ("The ice map cometh") and interview with the project coordinator Thomas Nagler (ENVEO) ("A slippery project") published in the magazine "International Innovation" (Dec. 2011).

Here you can download the CryoLand Flyer as PDF: