Use of drone aircraft for study anthropogenic snow patches.

Abstract

The systematic snow removal from the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk streets and its storage on anthropogenic snow patches, led to anthropogenic snowfields formation, which are not typical for southern Sakhalin. Based on our measurements results, the maximum volume of snow collected at the snow storageareas, in the city vicinity, during the winter season 2017/18 was more than 3 mln m3. The paper describes the remote sensing methods using experience, in particular, drone aircraft in the study of snow polygons on the southern Sakhalin.