Research article
02 Feb 2011
Research article | 02 Feb 2011
Some fundamentals of handheld snow surface thermography
C. Shea1 and B. Jamieson1,2
C. Shea and B. Jamieson
C. Shea1 and B. Jamieson1,2
- 1Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
- 2Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
- 1Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
- 2Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada
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Received: 02 Jul 2010 – Discussion started: 27 Aug 2010 – Revised: 10 Dec 2010 – Accepted: 09 Jan 2011 – Published: 02 Feb 2011
This paper presents the concepts needed to perform snow surface thermography with a modern thermal imager. Snow-specific issues in the 7.5 to 13 μm spectrum such as ice emissivity, photographic angle, operator heating, and others receive detailed review and discussion. To illustrate the usefulness of this measurement technique, various applications are presented. These include detecting spatial temperature variation on snow pit walls and measuring the dependence of heat conduction on grain type.