Item: SnowPilot: Online, Updated and Free
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Title: SnowPilot: Online, Updated and Free
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop 2016 Proceedings, Breckenridge, CO, USA
Authors:
- Doug Chabot [ Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center, Bozeman, MT, USA ]
- Mark Kahrl [ Kahrl Consulting, Bishop, CA, USA ]
- James Earl [ Earl Consulting, Livingston, MT, USA ]
Date: 2016-10-02
Abstract: SnowPilot (www.snowpilot.org) is open-source, free software that allows users to graph, record and database snowpit information. Initially developed during the winter of 2003-2004, was originally created as a way to enter snowpit data into a Personal Digital Assistant (aka. PDA, Palm Pilot) that would be stored and graphically viewed on a PC. As technology changed, left the PDA platform and became a standalone program for PC and Mac, while still populating the central database with snowpit data for use by avalanche researchers. Currently the database holds over 7200 snowpits from fifteen countries. New for this year is an online version of SnowPilot. It follows the US Snow, Weather and Avalanche Guidelines (SWAG) and the Canadian Avalanche Association guidelines (OGRES). After data gets entered, an image is created that can be printed and/or downloaded from the website. All data entered is owned by the user and error-checked to ensure a clean, robust database. SnowPilot does not charge a fee or collect any personal data other than what gets entered, nor do we advertise or sell anything. We respect privacy. In exchange for providing a free platform to enter snowpit data, gets an expanding database that is readily shared with researchers to advance the field of snow science. SnowPilot snowpits have in presentations at every ISSW since 2004.
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.20.pdf
Language of Article: English
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Keywords: SnowPilot, snowpit, graphing, database
Page Number(s): 594-596
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