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Due to the high reflectivity, rapid change, and intense spatial heterogeneity of mountainous snow cover, Sentinel-2 (S2) and Landsat 8 (L8) satellite imagery with both high spatial resolution and spectral resolution have become major data sources. However, optical sensors are more susceptible to cloud cover, and the two satellite images have significant spectral differences, making it challenging to obtain snow cover beneath clouds and cloud shadows (CCSs). Based on our previously published approach for snow reconstruction on S2 images using the Google Earth Engine (GEE), this study introduces two main innovations to reconstruct snow cover: (1) combining S2 and L8 images and choosing different CCS detection methods, and (2) improving the cloud shadow detection algorithm by considering land cover types, thus further improving the mountainous-snow-monitoring ability. The Babao River Basin of the Qilian Mountains in China is chosen as the study area; 399 scenes of S2 and 35 scenes of L8 are selected to analyze the spatiotemporal variations of snow cover from September 2019 to August 2022 in GEE. The results indicate that the snow reconstruction accuracies of both images are relatively high, and the overall accuracies for S2 and L8 are 80.74% and 88.81%, respectively. According to the time-series analysis of three hydrological years, it is found that there is a marked difference in the spatial distribution of snow cover in different hydrological years within the basin, with fluctuations observed overall.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16010188","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,2]],"date-time":"2024-01-02T10:36:59Z","timestamp":1704191819000},"page":"188","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Reconstructing Snow Cover under Clouds and Cloud Shadows by Combining Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 Images in a Mountainous Region"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6167-148X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanli","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography and Environment Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Resource Environment and Sustainable Development of Oasis, Lanzhou 730070, China"}]},{"given":"Changqing","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography and Environment Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}]},{"given":"Ruirui","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography and Environment Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}]},{"given":"Kegong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Gansu Provincial Institute of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, Lanzhou 730030, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"141","article-title":"Dynamic characteristics of snow cover in western China","volume":"223","author":"Li","year":"1994","journal-title":"IAHS Publ. 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