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Title: SAR REMOTE SENSING AS A SUPPORT TOOL FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING: Date: 2026-09-28; Authors: Alberto Mariani, Jacopo Borsotti, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Martin Ahrland Stefan, Franz Livio, Fabiano Monti; Description: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing has increasingly been exploited for snow and avalanche research to derive spatially explicit information...; Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.6.pdf; Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; remote sensing; wet snow; snow depth; avalanche deposits; View additional details about SAR REMOTE SENSING AS A SUPPORT TOOL FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING

Title: How Effective Are Avalanche Airbags? Field Tests of Avalanche Safety Equipment: Date: 2012; Authors: Lorenz Meier, Stephan Harvey; Description: Avalanche transceiver â€“ shovel â€“ probe. This still is the standard equipment recommended for touring in the backcountry. More and more, ...; Object ID: issw-2012-756-763.pdf; Keywords: avalanche airbags, avalanche safety equipment, avalanche deposits, avalanche burial; View additional details about How Effective Are Avalanche Airbags? Field Tests of Avalanche Safety Equipment

Title: Automated Avalanche Deposit Mappping from VHR Optical Imagery: Date: 2012; Authors: Matthew J. Lato, Regula Frauenfelder, Yves BÃ¼hler; Description: Using eCognition we developed an algorithm to automatically detect and map avalanche deposits in Very High Resolution (VHR) optical remote sensing ima...; Object ID: issw-2012-392-394.pdf; Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche mapping, algorithm; View additional details about Automated Avalanche Deposit Mappping from VHR Optical Imagery

Title: Soil Erosion Caused by Snow Avalanches: Preliminary Results of Two Case Studies in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy): Date: 2006; Authors: M. Freppaz, S. Lunardi , M. Maggioni, F. ValfrÃ¨, T. Bizzocchi, E. Zanini; Description: Snow avalanches exert considerable erosive forces on soils, which may be torn open and scraped away, especially in the transition zone, as a result o...; Object ID: issw-2006-880-886.pdf; Keywords: soil properties, avalanche deposits, alps, organic carbon, total nitrogen; View additional details about Soil Erosion Caused by Snow Avalanches: Preliminary Results of Two Case Studies in the Aosta Valley (NW-Italy)

Title: Overview of the 1999 Measurements at the SLF Test-Site Vallee De La Sionne: Date: 2000; Authors: Francois Dufour, Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt, Walter J. Ammann; Description: Three large avalanches were artificially triggered on January 30th, February 10th and February 25th 1999, at the Vallee de la Sionne test site of the ...; Object ID: issw-2000-527-534.pdf; Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche dynamics, avalanche modelling, avalanche velocities, impact forces, avalanche experiments, avalanche forces; View additional details about Overview of the 1999 Measurements at the SLF Test-Site Vallee De La Sionne

Title: A New Swiss Test-Site for Avalanche Experiments in the Vallee de la Sionnei Valais: Date: 1998; Authors: Walter J. Ammann; Description: A new Swiss test-site for avalanche experiments has been built to study the overall dynamic behaviour of dense-flow and powder-snow avalanches and to ...; Object ID: issw-1998-551-558.pdf; Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche mechanics, avalanche modelling, avalanche pressure, avalanche velocities, snow load on structures, impact forces; View additional details about A New Swiss Test-Site for Avalanche Experiments in the Vallee de la Sionnei Valais

Title: Avalanche Probing Revisited: Date: 1996; Authors: Tim Auger, Bruce Jamieson; Description: Avalanche probing is still required to search avalanche deposits when other rescue means such as transceivers are unavailable. For many years the most...; Object ID: issw-1996-295-298.pdf; Keywords: avalanche probing, avalanche deposits, avalanche victim; View additional details about Avalanche Probing Revisited