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- Title: MAKING AVALANCHE RESCUE EASIER AND FASTER BY ADDING SATELLITE NETWORKS TO THE EXISTING STANDARD
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Michael Vogt
- Description: Avalanche Transceiver search is always very imprecise due to the given technology of the magnetic field which never can give an exact location. Search...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.49.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche transceiver, gps-search, faster
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- Title: CHOOSING TO HOLD ‘EM OR FOLD ‘EM – EFFECTS OF AVALANCHE FORECAST INFORMATION ON TERRAIN EXPOSURE
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Håvard Boutera Toft, Andrea Mannberg, Martin Ahrland Stefan, Markus Johnsen Aase, Audun Hetland
- Description: We use Bayesian estimation methods to analyze how backcountry riders’ terrain choices covary with forecast avalanche problems, avalanche danger leve...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.7.pdf
- Keywords: risk communication, avalanche forecast, decision-making in avalanche terrain, gps tracks
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- Title: QUANTITATIVELY CAPTURING DECISION-MAKING PRACTICES OF MECHANIZED SKI GUIDES USING GPS TRACKING, AVALANCHE TERRAIN MODELING AND BAYESIAN NETWORKS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: John Sykes, Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins, Patrick Mair, Yves Bühler
- Description: Snow avalanches are the primary mountain hazard for mechanized skiing operations. Helicopter and snow-cat ski guides are tasked with finding safe terr...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O3.03.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, avalanche terrain modelling, gps tracking, mechanized skiing, backcountry
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- Title: TERRAIN USE METRICS AND AVYSCORE IN AVALANCHE AIRBAG USERS: A PILOT STUDY OF GPS TRACKING TO EVALUATE RISK HOMEOSTASIS EFFECTS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Patrick Fink, Claudine Tobalske, Blessing Ofori-Atta, Matthew Ainsley, Scott McIntosh, Graham Brant-Zawadzki
- Description: The effect of avalanche airbag use on backcountry user behavior is not known. Risk-homeostasis theory predicts that utilization of a new avalanche saf...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.37.pdf
- Keywords: risk homeostasis, terrain choices, avalanche airbags, gps tracking, avyscore
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- Title: Challenges and limitations of in situ particle tracking in avalanches
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Robert Winkler, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Peter Hergel, Michael Neuhauser, Betty Sovilla, Walter Steinkogler
- Description: A first approach to apply methods of inertial navigation for a motion tracking in a real-scale snow avalanche is presented. In the course of an artifi...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, motion tracking, inertial measurement unit, imu, gps, doppler radar.
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- Title: How do we really use terrain in the backcountry? A comparison between stated terrain preferences and observed backcountry travel behaviour
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Mannberg A.
- Description: Surveys have been used in avalanche research to gain insights into risk preferences and hypothetical choices to understand the links and drivers betwe...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.1.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, survey, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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- Title: Travel Behavior of Lift Access Backcountry Skiers adjacent to Bridger Bowl Ski Area, Montana USA
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: John Sykes, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Our research expands existing knowledge of travel behavior and decision-making in avalanche terrain. We utilize GPS tracking to observe the travel beh...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.3.pdf
- Keywords: gps tracking, human factor, lift access backcountry, heat map.
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- Title: Terrain selection and forecasted avalanche danger: Do recreationists select safer terrain when the forecasted danger increases?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Aubrey D. Miller, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. Olson, Elizabeth K. Roberts
- Description: Backcountry winter recreationists move through landscapes differently depending on myriad factors, including mode of travel (e.g., backcountry skier v...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O19.4.pdf
- Keywords: terrain selection, gps tracking, recreation, gis, danger scale, avalanche terrain
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- Title: How many start-zones capable of producing an avalanche large enough to bury or kill a skier do heli-ski guides encounter in a day?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Eirik Sharp, Pascal Haegeli, Mike Welch
- Description: Snow avalanches are the greatest risk threatening commercial heli-skiing groups. Guides manage the risk from avalanches by selecting terrain with a lo...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.1.pdf
- Keywords: gps tracking, release areas modeling, terrain selection
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- Title: Acceptable risk for backcountry skiers and riders from avalanche hazards: Differences in uphill and downhill terrain selection
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Aubrey D. Miller, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. Olson, Elizabeth K. Roberts
- Description: Backcountry skiers and riders move through terrain differently depending on whether they are traveling uphill, downhill or along rolling or flat terra...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.3.pdf
- Keywords: terrain selection, gps tracking, recreation, gis, danger scale
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- Title: Snowmobilers terrain preferences and exposure to avalanche terrain
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Haworth, C., Hendrikx J., Johnson J., Sykes, J.
- Description: Avalanche fatality statistics since 2000 shows that an increasing number of snowmobilers are killed in avalanches in the US. This increase has been at...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P19.8.pdf
- Keywords: decision making, backcountry, risk, gps tracking, terrain analysis
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- Title: Managing the Physical Risk From Avalanches in a Helicopter Skiing Operation--Merging and Contrasting Gps Tracking Data with the Operational Guiding Perspective
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
- Description: In the backcountry, physical risk from avalanches is managed by 1) assessing the nature, severity and spatial distribution of the local hazard based o...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.02.pdf
- Keywords: helicopter skiing, decision-making, risk management, terrain choices, gps tracking
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- Title: Understanding Global Crowd Sourcing Data to Examine Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present a subset of our results from our last three seasons (2013/14 to 2015/16) of global crowd sourced data collection to examine tr...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.06.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, crowd-sourcing
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- Title: Tracking Snowmobilers to Understand Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: This paper will present an analysis of snowmobile tracks from the 2015-16 winter season. Avalanche fatality statistics since 2000 shows that an increa...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.23.pdf
- Keywords: snowmobiles, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, education
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- Title: Heli-Ski Guide Tracking for Institutional Memory and Auditing
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
- Description: Heli-skiing is a growing industry in many parts of the world, with new operations starting in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and elsewhere in rece...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.32.pdf
- Keywords: hel-skiing, gps tracking, decision making, avalanche terrain, management
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