Amount of snowfall estimation system and amount of snowfall estimation method

Abstract

Objects of the present invention are to provide a snow accumulation estimating system and a method for estimating a snow accumulation which enable a snow accumulation to be remotely measured accurately and economically. A snow accumulation estimating system 301 according to the present invention includes: an optical fiber 50 that receives vibration from a random point on snow; a vibration measuring instrument 11 that measures the vibration received by the optical fiber 50 as a distribution in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber 50; and an analysis processing unit 12 that has, as accumulated data, a relationship between a snow accumulation and the vibration received by the optical fiber 50, compares the distribution measured as measurement data by the vibration measuring instrument 11 with the accumulated data, and estimates a snow accumulation at the random point.

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