Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41551454›Full record

ArticlePeerJ2026

Snow cover mapping with Meteosat third generation FCI: initial evaluation of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites H SAF H43 snow mask product.

Semih Kuter, Cagri Hasan Karaman, Mustafa Berkay Akpinar, Zuhal Akyurek

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in PeerJ, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Semih KuterDepartment of Forest Engineering/Faculty of Forestry, Cankiri Karatekin University, Cankiri, Turkey.
Cagri Hasan KaramanMiddle East Technical University Technopolis, HidroSAF Ltd., Ankara, Turkey.
Mustafa Berkay AkpinarMiddle East Technical University Technopolis, HidroSAF Ltd., Ankara, Turkey.
Zuhal AkyurekDepartment of Civil Engineering/Faculty of Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study presents the results of the initial validation of the EUMETSAT H SAF H43 snow cover product, the first operational snow product derived from the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) onboard Meteosat Third Generation (MTG). The evaluation, covering the period from December 2024 to February 2025, includes a direct comparison with the earlier H34 product, generated from SEVIRI observations onboard Meteosat Second Generation (MSG). Analyses were conducted over three mountainous regions-the Alps, Turkey, and Georgia-using MODIS-based reference snow cover maps and

Indexed as

Environmental MonitoringSatellite ImagerySnowGeorgiaSeasonsTurkeyFlexible combined imagerRemote sensing of cryosphereSnow cover mappingVIS/NIR radiometry

Identifiers

PMID41551454
PMCPMC12810367

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.