“…The existing ice and snow friction studies provide different approaches to surface texture measurements and analyses. The most common are non-contact profilometry (Bäurle et al, 2007;Kietzig et al, 2009;Kietzig et al, 2010b;Rohm et al, 2015;Scherge et al, 2018;Ripamonti et al, 2020;Liefferink et al, 2021), contact profilometry (Sukhorukov and Marchenko, 2014;Jansons et al, 2016;Spagni et al, 2016), scanning electron microscopy, SEM (Ducret et al, 2005;Bäurle et al, 2007;Kietzig et al, 2009;Kietzig et al, 2011;Ling et al, 2016;Ripamonti et al, 2020), optical microscopy (Rohm et al, 2015;Ling et al, 2016) and atomic force microscopy, AFM (Scherge et al, 2013). All these methods provide useful information about the surface topography, for example, SEM provides a high depth-of-field image of small surface details, such as asperity tips, scratch mark pileups, laser-texturing quality, surface polishing, etc.…”