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We headed over to Queenstown for some fieldwork on the Remarkables ski field and in Wye creek. We also met with members of the NZ Ski operations team to see if we could make use of snow depth data that their grooming machines collect each night. We also went for a night ski at Coronet Peak which was...

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In 2014, MRC members responded to a Call for Proposal to enroll a selection of New Zealand sites for regular monitoring by the VENμS microsatellite (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro-Satellite). Two sites were selected for the mission, one along the Main Divide in Aoraki Mount C...

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The SnOtago portal implemented a new responsive charting to bring a 20-year long time series of MODIS Terra Snow Cover Area (SCA) for interactive display. The data is updated in near real-time upon release of the latest daily MODIS MOD10A1 Snow Product. The current area covered by snow can easil...

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