Snowpack Measurement Technology: Sommer Sensors and System Integration for Snow and Avalanche Monitoring

Understanding how much snow sits on a mountainside, and how it is changing, matters for hydropower planning, highway safety, avalanche services and water resource management. Traditional methods relied on manual snow surveys: a technician walking a transect, probing the snowpack and recording depth by hand. This is slow, seasonal, hazardous in avalanche terrain and impossible to run continuously. Modern snowpack measurement technology replaces much of this with purpose-built sensors that record continuously and remotely. Aaxis Nano engineers these sensors into complete snow and avalanche monitoring systems, using technology from Sommer.