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Tussetschläger et al. referenced based on the DEM from LMI and geo- referenced orthophotos of 0.5 m resolution from the private company Loftmyndir. Subsequently, at least eight ground control points (mountain peaks, roofs of houses, churches etc.) were selected in each area and used for connecting the aerial images to the referenced orthophotos. We used the aerial photos for valida- tion purposes, by extracting snow patches based on a manually identified threshold value of the reflectance, which was kept equal for all photos. Orthophotos (from Loftmyndir) with a spatial resolution of 0.5 m and covering the study areas are available from the year 2000 (Brimnesdalur, Kerling and Búrfellsdalur; date unknown), eighth of August 2014 (Kerling and Sakka) and nineteenth of August 2016 (Almenningar, Úlfsdalir and Brimnesdalur). Areas of snow patch de- rived from aerial images and orthophotos were com- pared with areas of snow derived from the satellite images. Furthermore, single snow patches were se- lected and compared with snow patches in satellite images. Another opportunity to validate identified snow patches was through comparison with photos taken in the field. In some areas, e.g. Búrfellsjök- ull, glaciological mass balance has been determined since 2006 (Brynjólfsson, 2018 and 2019) and photos and valuable data about snow conditions are available since then. If a picture has been taken on the same date or close to the acquisition date of a satellite im- age, it can be used for comparison with the snow patch classification. If the time gap is longer, fieldwork data can still be useful for mapping the development of the snow distribution during a summer. In this study, field work photos from the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 are used for comparison. The locations of the identified snow patches were analysed in connection with the prevailing tempera- ture and precipitation in the area as well as the devel- opment of the snow patches. In the research area there are several weather stations, operated by the Icelandic Meteorological Office (Figure 1). The weather sta- tions in Siglufjörður, Ólafsfjörður, on Grímsey island, the Öxnadalsheiði pass and Vaðlaheiði pass measure temperature, dew point, wind speed and wind direc- tion and the weather station on Tindaöxl mountain measures temperature and snow depth. For precip- itation we used data from the weather stations lo- cated in Ólafsfjörður, Akureyri and Skeiðsfoss (Ice- landic Met. Office). The stations measure precipita- tion every 10 minutes and we used 1 hour mean val- ues. Furthermore, we have used a MAAT raster with 1x1 km grid size, which is based on measurements and interpolated with a DEM, to calculate tempera- ture decrease by elevation (monthly average in tem- perature decrease by elevation was used) (Björnsson et al., 2007). Perennial Snow Patch Classification The semi-automatic processing procedure for PSPs classification from optical satellite data is explained in the following section. At first, the input data (Sentinel-2 and Landsat-5/-7/-8 images) were down- loaded and pre-processed. An atmospheric correc- tion of the Sentinel-2 (Level-1C) images was applied with the Sen2Cor tool implemented in the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) (Muller-Wilm et al., 2017). The Level-1C images with Top of Atmosphere (TOA) values were atmospherically corrected, clas- sified in different scenes and converted into images with reflectance values (Level-2A products). The im- ages were then resampled to an equal grid spacing of 10 m. Furthermore, the spectral band 11 was resampled from 20 m to 10 m and a cloud mask was generated using an integrated tool in SNAP. The Landsat images were pre-processed using the Semi- Automatic Atmospheric Correction Plugin for QGIS (Luca, 2017). This processor uses an image based technique to perform a simple correction using DOS1 (Dark Object Subtraction 1) method. However, stud- ies (e.g. Winsvold et al., 2016) have shown that an atmospheric correction has only little influence on the satellite images if the identified class is snow or ice (against bare ground or vegetation). The Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) was calculated using the ratio of the green band and the Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) Band (see Equation 1, Dozier, 1989; Dozier and Painter, 2004): NDSI=(Green – SWIR)/(Green + SWIR) (1) In this approach a pixel is classified as snow if the NDSI is greater than 0.3. For Sentinel-2 the blue band (Band 2), which distinguishes snow in shadow, must 108 JÖKULL No. 69, 2019
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