公开(公告)号：US20240272092A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18567903

申请日：2022-06-09

申请人： FINAPP S.r.l.

发明人： Luca STEVANATO ,  Marcello LUNARDON ,  Sandra MORETTO ,  Giancarlo NEBBIA

IPC分类号： G01N23/02

CPC分类号： G01N23/025 ,  G01N33/1873 ,  G01N2223/102 ,  G01N2223/107 ,  G01N2223/205 ,  G01N2223/302 ,  G01N2223/505

摘要： The present invention relates to a system (S) and a process for determining the water equivalent content of a snowpack (Snow Water Equivalent—SWE)

公开(公告)号：US20240085397A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-14

申请号：US18263317

申请日：2022-02-11

申请人： FINAPP S.R.L.

发明人： Luca STEVANATO ,  Marcello LUNARDON ,  Sandra MORETTO

IPC分类号： G01N33/24 ,  G01T3/06

CPC分类号： G01N33/246 ,  G01T3/06

摘要： A device for measuring water content of the ground, vegetation and snow includes an ambient neutron detector to measure ambient neutron flow, having first and second sheets made at least partially with a scintillator. A light meter measures light conveyed by a light guide interposed between the first and second sheets. The ambient neutron detector transforms interaction with particle(s) into an electric charge. A programmable control unit connects to the ambient neutron detector, and includes an integrating circuit transforming the electric charge produced by interaction with the particle(s) into a signal. The control unit processes the signal to discriminate a signal generated by ambient neutron, incident cosmic rays and/or background noise, and measures ambient neutron flow, incident cosmic rays, and/or background noise. The measurement of the water content is obtained from measurement of normalized ambient neutron flow with respect to measurement of cosmic rays flow incident to the ground.