##### Snow Depth (SND) validation #####

To evaluate the AMSR2 SND product, it is needed to consider the effect of land cover and elevation.

These images are shown as below,
*Upper-left: AMSR2 SND L3 (Daily / Ascending)
*Upper-right: AMSR2 SND L3 (Daily / Descending)
*Middle-left: MODIS Snow Cover (8-days)-See also http://nsidc.org/data/modis/data_summaries#snow
*Lower-left: Landcover by ESA/GLOBCOVER (One data) -See also http://toyo.mediasfrance.org/?-land-cover-68-
*Lower-right: Elevation by NASA/SRTM30 (One data) -See also http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/