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Normalised Difference Snow Index, NDSI, Visualized

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The Sentinel-2 normalised difference snow index can be used to differentiate between cloud and snow cover as snow absorbs in the short-wave infrared light, but reflects the visible light, whereas cloud is generally reflective in both wavelengths. Snow cover is represented in bright vivid blue.

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Visualized NDSI over New Zealand, acquired on 2019-09-19.

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