Observations on powder snow avalanches using videogrammetry

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 153-159

  Vallet, J ^a   Turnbull, B ^b   Joly, S ^a   Dufour, F ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avalanche modelling; Image processing; Powder snow avalanches; Videogrammetry

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SNOW; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; VIDEO CAMERAS;

DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERAS; FLOW VOLUMES; SNOW AVALANCHE; TEST SITE; THREE DIMENSIONAL LOCATIONS; VIDEOGRAMMETRY;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

EID: 27744472047     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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