Item: A GIS Database for Avalanche Forecasting in Colorado
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Title: A GIS Database for Avalanche Forecasting in Colorado
Proceedings: 2010 International Snow Science Workshop
Authors:
- Douglas Scott [ Avalanche Mapping, Lafayette, Colorado, U.S.A. ]
- Ethan Greene [ Colorado Avalanche Information Center, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. ]
Date: 2010
Abstract: The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) is a statewide avalanche forecasting and education group. The CAIC produces avalanche safety products for both transportation and recreation applications. The Center’s operational responsibility covers a large geographic area including 30 road sections and over 120,000 km2 of backcountry. Forecasters require access to vast amounts of data while composing avalanche safety products and have limited time to find and retrieve it. Over the past 5 years the staff of the CAIC worked with Avalanche Mapping to create a GIS database of information applicable to their forecasting operation. This is an ongoing project as data and data categories are added each day and each year.
Object ID: ISSW_P-038.pdf
Language of Article: English
Presenter(s): Unknown
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), geographic information systems (gis)
Page Number(s): 502-514
Subjects: gis database avalanche forecasting colorado
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