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We explore the potential of Maxar WorldView-2 and WorldView-3 in-track stereo images (WV) for land and snow cover mapping at two sites in the Western U.S. with different snow regimes, topographies, vegetation, and underlying geology. We trained random forest models using combinations of multispectral bands and normalized difference indices (i.e., NDVI) to produce land cover maps for priority feature classes (snow, shaded snow, vegetation, water, and exposed ground). We then created snow-covered area products from these maps and compared them with coarser resolution satellite fractional snow-covered area (fSCA) products from Landsat (~30 m) and MODIS (~500 m). Our models generated accurate classifications, even with limited combinations of available multispectral bands. Models trained on a single image demonstrated limited model transfer, with best results found for in-region transfers. Coarser-resolution Landsat and MODSCAG fSCA products identified many more pixels as completely snow-covered (100% fSCA) than WV fSCA. However, while MODSCAG fSCA products also identified many more completely snow-free pixels (0% fSCA) than WV fSCA, Landsat fSCA products only slightly underestimated the number of completely snow-free pixels. 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