In the snow shot, it looks like the pole isnt really being used for motion tracking, as much as its being used for timing to know when to pan the camera of the green screen shot.
Does that kind of help? Or are you wondering the specific kind of tracking like Match Moving or 3d camera tracking (syntheyes, boujou, etc?)
I don't see any other way to do that shot properly than with a motion control rig. And then at that point, it's not really a tracking job anymore, just matching the motion control so that both shots are in sync (and then after that move on to the rest of the compositing of course).