The potential of retrieving snow line dynamics from Landsat during the end of the ablation seasons between 1982 and 2017 in European mountains

Abstract Snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is continuously decreasing during the ablation seasons in the context of climate change. Snow Line Elevation (SLE) is a suitable indicator illustrating detailed snow cover distribution dynamics at a regional scale. In order to carry out time-series analyses of the SLEs in mountain areas, long-term (>30 years) and detailed spatial resolution (