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Title: Avalanche detection in Sentinel-1 radar images using convolutional neural networks
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Per Egil Kummervold, Eirik Malnes, Markus Eckerstorfer, Ingar M. Arntzen, Fillipo Bianchi
Description: Knowledge about frequency and location of avalanche activity is important for avalanche forecasting and hazard mapping. Traditional field monitoring h...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.9.pdf
Keywords: sentinel-1, avalanche detection, convolutional neural network, artificial intelligence.
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Title: Regional scale statistical mapping of snow avalanche likelihood and its combination with an optical remote sensing based avalanche detection approach - first attempts for the province of South Tyrol (Italy)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sarah Nolting, Carlo Marin, Stefan Steger, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Claudia Notarnicola, Claudia Notarnicola, Marc Zebisch
Description: Snow avalanches are potentially dangerous phenomena in many mountainous areas worldwide. Most avalanche related research concentrates on a detailed an...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, change detection, generalized additive model, optical remote sensing, sentinel-2.
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Title: Avalanche Monitoring Using Portable Low-cost Infrasound Systems
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sin Ming Loo, H.P. Marshall, Austin Davis, Mark Laverty, Grady Anderson, Ashton Durrant, Chris Larsen, Jeff B. Johnson, Jake F. Anderson, Bill Nalli, Mark Saurer
Description: The detection and triangulation of both avalanches and controlled explosions by means of infrasound technology has been demonstrated over the past two...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.2.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, avalanche detection, sensor
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Title: Real-time Radar Avalanche Detection of a large Detection Zone for Road Safety in Norway
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Andreas Persson, Martin Venås, Tore Humstad, Lorenz Meier
Description: The project involves testing a long-range and wide-angle Doppler radar for detection of avalanches, as a part of an early warning system planned for C...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.3.pdf
Keywords: early warning system, doppler radar, long range, wide angle, avalanche detection, holmbuktura
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Title: Detection and tracking of snow avalanches in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah using multiple small-aperture infrasound arrays
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Jeffrey B. Johnson, Hans P. Marshall, Sin M. Loo, Bill Nalli, Mark Saurer, Scott Havens, Javier Colton, Jacob F. Anderson
Description: Two two-element arrays are used to effectively track the progression of snow avalanche in Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon during triggered and ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.7.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, infrasound, network of arrays
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Title: 8 years experience in avalanche detection by using a Pulse Doppler Radar
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Richard Koschuch
Description: Nowadays, artificial release of avalanches for road and slope safety is very common. To do so safely, a reliable detection and monitoring system in an...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O07.12.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, avalanche detection, alarming system, monitoring system
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Title: When do avalanches release: investigating time scales in avalanche formation
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Heck, Bettina Richter, Betty Sovilla, Frank Techel
Description: Forecasting snow avalanches requires a detailed understanding of the influence of meteorological boundary conditions on avalanche formation. For insta...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote avalanche detection, detrended cross-correlation, avalanche formation, meteorological drivers
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Title: Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring From Space: Creating a Complete Avalanche Activity Dataset for a Norwegian Forecasting Region
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Eirik Malnes
Description: Complete and consistent avalanche activity records, critical for avalanche forecasting, are with traditional monitoring methods not achievable in an e...
Object ID: ISSW16_O9.01.pdf
Keywords: radar remote sensing, avalanche detection, sentinel-1a, change detection
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Title: Real-Time Avalanche Detection with Long-Range, Wide-Angle Radars for Road Safety in Zermatt, Switzerland
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Lorenz Meier, Mylène F. Jacquemart, Bernhard Blattmann, Bernhard Arnold
Description: Two notorious avalanche gullies threaten the only access road to Zermatt, Switzerland. Avalanches are released artificially by helicopter blasting whe...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche alarm system, road safety, radar, avalanche detection
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Title: Operational Radar and Infrasound Systems for Avalanche Detection
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen, Lorenz Meier
Description: Due to the increased mobility demands of societies, long-lasting closures of roads and railway lines are less accepted. Along traffic routes or ski re...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, racs, avalanche radar, infrasound, ida, lara, sara
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Title: Microwave Radar Systems for Detecting Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: David G. Long, Andre Brummer, Bill Nalli
Description: Key roads in the Western U.S. are often closed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately, they generally occur in well-defined paths. Knowing when ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, radar, remote sensing
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Title: Infrasound Detection of Avalanches in Grasdalen and Indreeidsdalen, Norway
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Tore Humstad, Ørjan Søderblom, Giacomo Ulivieri, Stian Langeland, Halgeir Dahle
Description: Infrasound technology for detection of snow avalanches has been tested in mountainous terrain in Norway over the two last winter seasons. Two valleys,...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.25.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, avalanche detection, forecasting, ida
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Title: Remote Sensing of Avalanches in Northern Norway Using Synthetic Aperture Radar
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Eirik Malnes, Markus Eckerstorfer, Yngvar Larsen, Regula Frauenfelder, Árni Jónsson, Christian Jaedicke, Stian A. Solbø
Description: We present results from using synthetic aperture radar data (SAR) to analyse three avalanches in the county of Troms in northern Norway during the lat...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, remote sensing, synthetic aperture radar, uav
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Title: Automatically Finding Avalanches in Geophone Data: A Pattern Recognition Workflow
Date: 2012
Authors: Marc J. Rubin, Tracy Camp, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: In this article we summarize a pattern recognition workflow to automatically detect avalanche events from passive seismic data collected from geophon...
Object ID: issw-2012-989-992.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, danger level, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Listening to Snow – Avalanche Detection Using a Seismic Sensor Array
Date: 2010
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Jake Turner, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Data on avalanche activity are of vital importance for avalanche forecasting. Avalanche activity is usually estimated based on visual observations, wh...
Object ID: ISSW_P-004.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, seismic sensor array, forecasting, visual observations
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