Snow plays a crucial role in regulating water availability in eco-hydrological systems. Its spatial distribution is key for understanding melting dynamics, particularly in forests where snow amounts vary on small spatial scales (<3 m) compared to open areas. Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) measurements can quantify the snow distribution in forests at sufficiently high spatial resolution. Such datasets showed that snow distribution can be aggregated into spatial patterns feat…