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Automatic snow type classification of snow micropenetrometer profiles with machine learning algorithms
Julia Kaltenborn
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WSL Institute for Snow and
Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Institute of Cognitive Science, University Osnabrück, Wachsbleiche 27, 49090 Osnabrück, Germany
Mila – Quebec AI Institute, 6666 Rue Saint-Urbain, QC H2S 3H1, Montréal, Canada
School of Computer Science, McGill University, 3480 Rue University, QC H3A 2A7, Montréal, Canada
Amy R. Macfarlane
WSL Institute for Snow and
Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Viviane Clay
Institute of Cognitive Science, University Osnabrück, Wachsbleiche 27, 49090 Osnabrück, Germany
Numenta, 889 Winslow Street, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA
WSL Institute for Snow and
Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland
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Short summary
Snow layer segmentation and snow grain classification are essential diagnostic tasks for cryospheric applications. A SnowMicroPen (SMP) can be used to that end; however, the manual classification of its profiles becomes infeasible for large datasets. Here, we evaluate how well machine learning models automate this task. Of the 14 models trained on the MOSAiC SMP dataset, the long short-term memory model performed the best. The findings presented here facilitate and accelerate SMP data analysis.
Snow layer segmentation and snow grain classification are essential diagnostic tasks for...
