Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3843-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3843-2022
Research article
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27 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 27 Sep 2022

Drone-based ground-penetrating radar (GPR) application to snow hydrology

Eole Valence, Michel Baraer, Eric Rosa, Florent Barbecot, and Chloe Monty

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The internal properties of the snow cover shape the annual hygrogram of northern and alpine regions. This study develops a multi-method approach to measure the evolution of snowpack internal properties. The snowpack hydrological property evolution was evaluated with drone-based ground-penetrating radar (GPR) measurements. In addition, the combination of GPR observations and time domain reflectometry measurements is shown to be able to be adapted to monitor the snowpack moisture over winter.