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Application of Georadar for Snow Cover Surveying

Author(s) -

Knut Sand,

Oddbjørn Bruland

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

hydrology research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.665

H-Index - 48

eISSN - 1996-9694

pISSN - 0029-1277

DOI - 10.2166/nh.1998.0026

Subject(s) - snow , ground penetrating radar , snow cover , geology , norwegian , cover (algebra) , water equivalent , radar , hydrology (agriculture) , geomorphology , remote sensing , geotechnical engineering , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy

A commercial georadar was tested over in a Norwegian catchment in order to determine the areal mean snow water equivalent ( SWE ) and its spatial distribution. The methodology used and the results obtained are described. The radar was run along a number of selected snow courses, and the results were compared with manual measurements of snow depth and density. It was found that georadar is able to give accurate estimates of mean SWE with much less time spent in the field compared to conventional measurements. Georadar also gave a good description of the areal distribution of SWE .

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