Abstract
Wind-blown snow particles often contaminate Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data of snow covered terrain. However, common filtering techniques fail to filter wind-blown snow and incorrectly filter data from the true surface due to the spatial distribution of wind-blown snow and the TLS scanning geometry. We present FlakeOut, a filter designed specifically to filter wind-blown snowflakes from TLS data. A key aspect of FlakeOut is a low false positive rate of 2.8x10-4—an order of magnitude lower than standard filtering techniques—which greatly reduces the number of true ground points that are incorrectly removed. This low false positive rate makes FlakeOut appropriate for applications requiring quantitative measurements of the snow surface in light to moderate blowing snow conditions. Additionally, we provide mathematical and software tools to efficiently estimate the false positive rate of filters applied for the purpose of removing erroneous data points that occur very infrequently in a dataset.
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