DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-1919-2020
论文题名: Improving sub-canopy snow depth mapping with unmanned aerial vehicles: Lidar versus structure-from-motion techniques
作者: Harder P. ; Pomeroy J.W. ; Helgason W.D. ; Helgason W.D.
刊名: Cryosphere
ISSN: 19940416
出版年: 2020
卷: 14, 期: 6 起始页码: 1919
结束页码: 1935
语种: 英语
英文关键词: aerial survey
; lidar
; maximum likelihood analysis
; observatory
; remote sensing
; snowpack
; unmanned vehicle
; Alberta
; Canada
; Saskatchewan
; Saskatoon
英文摘要: Vegetation has a tremendous influence on snow processes and snowpack dynamics, yet remote sensing techniques to resolve the spatial variability of sub-canopy snow depth are not always available and are difficult from spacebased platforms. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have had recent widespread application to capture high-resolution information on snow processes and are herein applied to the sub-canopy snow depth challenge. Previous demonstrations of snow depth mapping with UAV structure from motion (SfM) and airborne lidar have focussed on non-vegetated surfaces or reported large errors in the presence of vegetation. In contrast, UAV-lidar systems have high-density point clouds and measure returns from a wide range of scan angles, increasing the likelihood of successfully sensing the subcanopy snow depth. The effectiveness of UAV lidar and UAV SfM in mapping snow depth in both open and forested terrain was tested in a 2019 field campaign at the Canadian Rockies Hydrological Observatory, Alberta, and at Canadian prairie sites near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Only UAV lidar could successfully measure the sub-canopy snow surface with reliable sub-canopy point coverage and consistent error metrics (root mean square error (RMSE) <0:17 m and bias-0:03 to-0:13 m). Relative to UAV lidar, UAV SfM did not consistently sense the sub-canopy snow surface, the interpolation needed to account for point cloud gaps introduced interpolation artefacts, and error metrics demonstrated relatively large variability (RMSE<0:33 m and bias 0.08 to-0:14 m). With the demonstration of sub-canopy snow depth mapping capabilities, a number of early applications are presented to showcase the ability of UAV lidar to effectively quantify the many multiscale snow processes defining snowpack dynamics in mountain and prairie environments. © 2020 Author(s). Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/164473
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作者单位: Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Department of Civil Geological, and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Harder P.,Pomeroy J.W.,Helgason W.D.,et al. Improving sub-canopy snow depth mapping with unmanned aerial vehicles: Lidar versus structure-from-motion techniques[J]. Cryosphere,2020-01-01,14(6)