Mapping starting zone snow depth with a ground-based LiDAR to improve avalanche control and forecasting
Jeffrey S Deems1, Peter J Gadomski2, Dominic Vellone3, Ryan Evanczyk3, Adam L LeWinter4, Karl Birkeland5 and David C Finnegan6, (1)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Mammoth Lakes, United States, (2)US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Arapahoe Basin Ski Patrol, Dillon, CO, United States, (4)Univ Northern Colorado, Denver, CO, United States, (5)US Forest Service, National Avalanche Center, Bozeman, MT, United States, (6)US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States
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