# Advancements for Snowmelt Monitoring by Means of Sentinel-1 SAR
## Abbreviations  
The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript: \begin{tabular}{l l} DEM & Digital Elevation Model \\ ENL & Effective Number of Looks \\ ESA & European Space Agency: \\ ETM+ & Enhanced Thematic Mapper \\ EW & Extra Wide swath mode \\ FFG & Austrian Research Promotion Agency \\ GB & Giga Byte \\ GLOVIS & Global Visualization Viewer \\ GMES & Global Monitoring for Environment and Security \\ GRD & Ground Range Detected \\ IW & Interferometric Wide swath mode \\ LOS & Line Of Sight \\ MODIS & Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer \\ NESZ & Noise Equivalent Sigma-0 \\ OLCI & Ocean Land Color Instrument \\ OLI & Operational Land Imager \\ S1 & Sentinel-1 \\ SAR & Synthetic Aperture Radar \\ SLC & Single Look Complex \\ SLSTR & Sea Land Surface Temperature Radiometer \\ SM & Stripmap mode \\ \end{tabular}   
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