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Title: Optimizing GIS For Snow Safety Operations at Taos Ski Valley: Avalanche and Explosive Tracking and Digital Avalanche Atlas Apps
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Rachel L. Moscarella, Andy Bond, Wetherbee B. Dorshow
Description: Given the tenet that ski patrollers are inherently reluctant to complete paperwork, we felt compelled to make the recording of explosive use and avala...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.34.pdf
Keywords: gis, risk management, avalanche mapping
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Title: Climate-Scale Maps of Cold-Season Precipitation in the Mountainous Areas of Colorado for Operational Forecasting Applications
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: B.J. Marraccini, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene
Description: The PRISM precipitation model (v2014Jan) published by the PRISM Climate Group/NACSE provides a gridded (4km spatial resolution) estimate of monthly pr...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.15.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, precipitation, mapping, snow climate, gis.
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Title: Mapping of Avalanche Accidents in France: Build a GIS Tool
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Michael Deschatres, Frédéric Jarry, Dominique Létang, François Rapin, Didier Richard, Nicolas Eckert, Sébastien Escande, Eric Maldonado
Description: The French National Association for the Study of Snow and Avalanche, called ANENA, makes prevention on avalanche accidents in France. ANENA manages a ...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.09.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche accident, gis, geographic information system, map, localization
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Title: Integrating Gaming Technology to Map Avalanche Hazard
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Donna Delparte, Michael R. Peterson, John Perkins, Jahrain Jackson
Description: As gaming physics engines advance, snow scientists have the opportunity to utilize these engines to animate and model avalanche flow and runout. Nume...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-22.pdf
Keywords: hazard mapping, gis, avalanche terrain modelling, dem, genetic algorithms
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Title: Terrain Analysis of Skier-Triggered Avalanche Starting Zones
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Irene Vontobel, Stephan Harvey, Ross S. Purves
Description: Terrain is one of the main factors contributing to avalanche formation and important for the assessment of avalanche risk. Terrain characteristics of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche starting zone, terrain, gis
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Title: Understanding Travel Behaviour in Avalanche Terrain: A New Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Ellie Southworth
Description: To date, most studies of the human dimensions of decision-making in avalanche terrain has focused on two areas - post-accident analysis using accident...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-09.pdf
Keywords: decision making, human factors, heuristics, gps, gis, terrain analysis
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Title: The Avalanche Cadaster of the Valle d’Aosta Region (NW Italian Alps): The New Born Web Portal (http://catastovalanghe.partout.it/)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: A. Debernardi, V. Segor
Description: The Region of Aosta Valley is located in the far north-western part of Italy and share borders, to the north and west, with Switzerland and France. Mo...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-37.pdf
Keywords: avalanches cadaster, web portal, aosta valley, gis, historical memory
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Title: Software Tools Developed for the Swiss Avalanche Warning Service - A System Overview
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Ulrich Niederer
Description: Today, highly specialized software is required to produce the public avalanche bulletin and complementary snow information. Numerous data sources cont...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-38.pdf
Keywords: geoservices, gis, java, json
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Title: Snow Safety Control Operations: An Interactive Web-Based Approach
Date: 2012
Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Jim Collinson, Randy Trover, Peter Schory
Description: Snow safety and ski patrol at skis areas are faced with the daunting task of maintaining avalanche control routes and artillery controlled areas. In t...
Object ID: issw-2012-290-293.pdf
Keywords: ski patrolling, starting zones, avalanche run-out, geographic information systems (gis),
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Title: National Database for Mitigative Measures Against Rapid Gravity Mass Flows and Rock Falls
Date: 2012
Authors: Árni Jónsson, Egil Syre, Kristine Helene Hetland Ekseth, Helge C. Smebye, Eivind M. Paulsen
Description: Mitigation measures against natural catastrophes, such as rapid gravity mass flows and rock falls, have been built in Norway for centuries. Over the l...
Object ID: issw-2012-680-684.pdf
Keywords: mitigation measures, geographic information systems (gis), database
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Title: Avalanche Terrain Analysis of Hatch Peak at Hatcher Pass, Alaska Using ATES and GIS
Date: 2012
Authors: Rebekah King
Description: Parks Canada created the popular Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES), identifying eleven factors that can increase the probability of an avalanche...
Object ID: issw-2012-689-692.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), ates, terrain analysis hazard mitigation
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Title: A Rule Based Risk Management System Based on Maps and Danger Level
Date: 2012
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: After a tragic accident where 16 soldiers were killed in an avalanche during a military exercise in 1986, the Norwegian Armed Forces took several ste...
Object ID: issw-2012-693-695.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, release zones, geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: GIS Tools for Avalanche Assessment
Date: 2012
Authors: G. Burelli, F. Cucchi, V. Segor
Description: The use of Gis in avalanche assessment is widely adopted, it performs analysis which help to make decisions in land management. The aim of this work ...
Object ID: issw-2012-750-755.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), land use planning, avalanche hazard
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Title: Interactive Avalanche Information System (IAIS)
Date: 2012
Authors: Richard W Steiner, Mark Dundas, Peter Petri
Description: In 2010 avalanche forecasters (forecasters) employed by Chugach Adventure Guides (CAG) began developing a web-based avalanche atlas (Atlas) as part of...
Object ID: issw-2012-375-380.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), avalanche atlas, web based avalanche atlas, data, database, database management
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Title: Zoning With the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
Date: 2012
Authors: Cam Campbell, Brian Gould, James Newby
Description: During the past three winters over 4000 km2 of avalanche terrain in five mountain ranges in western Canada was zoned with the Avalanche Terrain Exposu...
Object ID: issw-2012-450-457.pdf
Keywords: zoning, terrain, geographic information systems (gis)
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