Suitability of ground-based SfM–MVS for monitoring glacial and periglacial  processes

Piermattei, Livia; Carturan, Luca; de Blasi, Fabrizio; Tarolli, Paolo; Dalla Fontana, Giancarlo; Vettore, Antonio; Pfeifer, Norbert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-425-2016

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Frontiers in geomorphometry

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20 May 2016

Research article |

| 20 May 2016

Suitability of ground-based SfM–MVS for monitoring glacial and periglacial processes

Livia Piermattei, Luca Carturan, Fabrizio de Blasi, Paolo Tarolli, Giancarlo Dalla Fontana, Antonio Vettore, and Norbert Pfeifer

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RC C504: 'REVIEW OF esurf-2015-46', Álvaro Gómez-Gutiérrez, 09 Dec 2015
RC C508: 'Review Piermattei et al: «Analysis of glacier and periglacial ….»', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Dec 2015
EC C518: 'Reviews', Susan Conway, 11 Dec 2015
AC C671: 'Comments_esurfd-3-1445-2015', Livia Piermattei, 16 Feb 2016
- EC C674: 'Request for clean version of manuscript', Susan Conway, 23 Feb 2016
AC C675: 'Clean version of the manuscript', Livia Piermattei, 23 Feb 2016
EC C755: 'Minor comments on manuscript', Susan Conway, 11 Apr 2016

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AR by Livia Piermattei on behalf of the Authors (11 Mar 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (30 Mar 2016) by Susan Conway

AR by Livia Piermattei on behalf of the Authors (30 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 May 2016) by Susan Conway

ED: Publish as is (03 May 2016) by Tom Coulthard (Editor)

AR by Livia Piermattei on behalf of the Authors (04 May 2016)

Short summary

We investigated the applicability of the SfM–MVS approach for calculating the geodetic mass balance of a glacier and for the detection of the surface displacement rate of an active rock glacier located in the eastern Italian Alps. The results demonstrate that it is possible to reliably quantify the investigated glacial and periglacial processes by means of a quick ground-based photogrammetric survey that was conducted using a consumer grade SRL camera and natural targets as ground control points.