TY - Generic T1 - Snow Measurement Using Ground-Based Tripod LIDAR T2 - 76th Annual Western Snow Conference Y1 - 2008 A1 - Osterhuber, R. A1 - Howle, J. A1 - Bawden, G. KW - LiDAR, Central Sierra Snow Lab, Donner Summer, snowpack, snow volume AB - Using tripod mounted LiDAR, imagery scans of targeted areas of snow covered terrain were collected at various intervals during Winter 2008 both at the main study site of the Central Sierra Snow Laboratory and at a State of California snow course on Donner Summit, California. LiDAR's high measurement accuracy in both range and position facilitates the generation of very detailed three-dimensional data sets that were then analyzed for snow volume over the targeted area. Repeated scans of targeted areas were used to calculate changes in snow depth and volume. Snow depth values as measured by the LiDAR scanner correlated well (R2 = 0.96) with coincident hand measured values. JF - 76th Annual Western Snow Conference T3 - Proceedings of the 76th Annual Western Snow Conference PB - Western Snow Conference CY - Hood River, OR UR - sites/westernsnowconference.org/PDFs/2008Osterhuber.pdf ER -