ASU, SRP project takes flight to improve water supply forecasting

Arizona State University and Salt River Project are working with Airborne Snow Observatories Inc. on an innovative project to measure snowpack in the Salt River watershed — providing crucial data to improve water management. For the first time, a collaborative research team is using an airplane equipped with state-of-the-art scanning lidar and imaging spectrometers, along with innovative computational modeling from ASU, to measure snowpack and determine how much water it contains.