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Scanning snow depths - no dipstick required
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

One of the trickier aspects of snow maintenance and grooming is judging the evenness of the cover after snow is made or spread - which is invariably done overnight for safety, and to avoid disruption.

Using a hand-held scanning device is a novel way to do it - it works in a similar way to a 'seabed finder' or 'fish finder' beneath a boat.

This is what it looks like.
This is what it does.
This is how it works.

Combining the system with GPS enables the patroller to generate a map of snowdepths across a complete run or ski area. Here's an example (pdf file) of a run at Vail, Colorado:
http://www.snowscan.com/pmd270.pdf

Would anyone like one of these for Christmas? (can't find the price, but price is no object for Santa)
ski holidays
ski holidays
 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Looks like the ground penetrating radars they use on programs like time team
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