Anyone happen to know why the LIDAR can't be augmented by radar or some other frequency of light in which snow is transparent (e.g. http://www.gizmag.com/compac

Anyone happen to know why the LIDAR can't be augmented by radar or some other frequency of light in which snow is transparent (e.g. http://www.gizmag.com/compact-radar-fraunhofer/26844/ http://www.gizmag.com/compact-radar-fraunhofer/26844/)? I suspect there is an issue with update frequency or spatial resolution, but it seems like it could be a good fit for the sort of best-effort approach described in OP.