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cfastie | "The Arduino snow depth gauge seems to produce good data. It is an ESP8266 and laser rangefinder I2C sensor ($9 total cost). As expected data collec..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
detikskor | "During blizzards the data will be very noisy, Prediksi Liga but then you also have a record of when it was snowing. " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
detikskor | "During blizzards the data will be very noisy, Prediksi Liga but then you also have a record of when it was snowing. " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
Ag8n | "You have a much better idea in this field than I do. My apologies for any offense I may have caused. Good luck. " | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
MadTinker | "SNOTEL uses snow pillows which are devices about 3m x 3m, that sit on the ground and measure the hydrostatic pressure of the snow that falls on the..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
Ag8n | "The U.S. Maintains a snotel (snow telemetry) network. These are stations that monitor the snow depth and then forward that data, daily, by means ..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
cfastie | "The sunlight is not an issue. For a winter-long monitoring goal, a few measurements every day are plenty, and those can be taken at night. With the..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
MadTinker | "Thanks Chris, unfortunately we generally have sunny weather so a laser is generally out. In addition, last year we rec'd 4.14m (163") of snow, wit..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
cfastie | "I tried one of those little six dollar laser rangefinders (vl53lox) for measuring distance to snow. Those rangefinders don't work at all in sunligh..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
wln215 | "This post got me thinking weather it's possible to use the kind of technology laser range finders use, but at a wavelength that snow is invisible t..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago | |||
cfastie | "I think a laser rangefinder might work well for this. Put it on a pole and point it downward to measure the distance from the rangefinder to the sn..." | Read more » | almost 5 years ago |