SnowEx project is a multiyear campaign designed to advance new remote-sensing techniques to measure the amount of water held in snow. The mandate of SnowEx is to better measure the snowpack through an aerial campaign combined with satellite data and field measurements. That's really important for being able to estimate how much water is in a particular basin and how much runoff there will be. Measuring things like the snow albedo is important for the timing of that runoff. [Source: University of California, Santa Barbara]
