Mapping snow depth from manned aircraft on landscape scales  at centimeter resolution using structure-from-motion photogrammetry

Nolan, M.; Larsen, C.; Sturm, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1445-2015

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1445-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1445-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 4

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05 Aug 2015

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Mapping snow depth from manned aircraft on landscape scales at centimeter resolution using structure-from-motion photogrammetry

M. Nolan, C. Larsen, and M. Sturm

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RC C35: 'Referee comment', Yves Bühler, 06 Feb 2015
- AC C623: 'authors' response', Matt Nolan, 29 Apr 2015
RC C123: 'Impressive analysis of results, but fails to address stated objective', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Mar 2015
- AC C624: 'authors' response', Matt Nolan, 29 Apr 2015
AC C622: 'response to reviewers', Matt Nolan, 29 Apr 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Matt Nolan on behalf of the Authors (30 Apr 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 May 2015) by Andreas Kääb

RR by Yves Bühler (19 May 2015)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (20 May 2015) by Andreas Kääb

AR by Matt Nolan on behalf of the Authors (02 Jul 2015) Author's response Manuscript

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This paper presents a photogrammetric method for measuring topography from manned aircraft with an accuracy of 30 cm and repeatability of 8 cm, at significantly lower cost than other methods. Here we created difference maps to demonstrate that we could measure snow depth with an accuracy of 10 cm compared to over 6000 snow-probe measurements on the ground, but do so over entire watersheds at 10-20 cm spatial resolution rather than just a few transects.