DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC MODELING OF MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN AND SNOW COVER DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS

This paper explores applications of digital photogrammetric modeling of mountainous terrain in forecasting snow depth and the meltwater avalanche hazard in a mining region of northwestern Russia. A series of initial maps (initial terrain points, relief of snow-flow centers, slope angles and orientations) provides successively more specific information, culminating in the compilation of a map of maximum snow cover depths at a center of water-saturated snow flows (representative reference site) on the northern slope of Mt. Aykuayvenchorr. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Geomorfologiya, 1993, No. 3, pp. 75-83.