Abstract
Snow is one of the most difficult elements to measure of meteorological elements; snow disasters every year bring immeasurable losses to the society. It will bring a serious threat to people’s lives and property security. And a light snow on railway is not serious, but heavy snow will seriously affect the transportation safety and transportation efficiency and cause an avalanche of railway safety accidents. So the snow depth measurement is particularly important. Railway snow monitoring has become an important safety factors. This article will introduce several popular snow survey methods and devices, such as laser ranging method, ultrasonic measurement, and infrared distance measurement method. The article will analyze the advantages and disadvantages of these methods and conclude which snow scene is most adapted to these methods. Finally, snow depth monitoring management system will be designed.
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The authors would like to express our thanks to the editor and anonymous reviewers for their help in revising the manuscript. This research is sponsored by the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under grand 20120009110035 and the State Key Laboratory Program under Grant RCS2014ZT24. The support is gratefully acknowledged.
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Xiong, J., Zhu, L., Qin, Y., Cheng, X., Kou, L., Zhang, Z. (2016). Railway Snow Measuring Methods and System Design. In: Jia, L., Liu, Z., Qin, Y., Ding, R., Diao, L. (eds) Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 377. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49367-0_79
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