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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping in Kazakhstan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Blagovechshenskiy V., Gulyayeva T.
Description: Avalanche hazard maps in Kazakhstan are produced in small (< 1/500 000), medium (1/100 000 - 1/300 000), and large (> 1/100 000) scales. Avalanche ha...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-25.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: CLPA Annual Updating, 10 years of Practise… Results, Process Improvement and Prospects…
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Robinet J. Irstea, Bonnefoy-Demongeot M. Irstea
Description: After the UCPA disaster in Val d’Isère in 1970 that killed 39 people, the French Government decided to create the CLPA (Localization Map of ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-52.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, mapping, testimonies, network of observators
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Title: Snow Avalanche Hazard Mapping for Different Frequency Scenarios, The Case of the Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paweł Chrustek, Marek Świerk, Marek Biskupič
Description: Snow avalanche hazard mapping is an important tool for land-use planning and safety assessment. It has proven to be the one of the most efficient and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-54.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche mapping, hazard mapping, ramms, carpathians, tatra mountains
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Title: Snow Avalanches Mapping – Evaluation of a New Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Paweł Chrustek, Natalia Kolecka, Yves Bühler
Description: Recent snow avalanche hazard mapping tools and procedures offer methods to improve the accuracy and reliability of risk and hazard localization. The v...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-55.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche mapping, risk and hazard localization, avalanche outlines, historical data, avalmapper
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Title: Back-Calculation of Small Avalanches with the 2D Avalanche Dynamics Model Ramms: Four Events Artificially Triggered at the Seehore Test Site in Aosta Valley (NW Italy)
Date: 2012
Authors: M. Maggioni, M. Freppaz, M. Christen, P. Bartelt, E. Zanini
Description: Avalanche dynamics models are widely used to simulate extreme avalanches for hazard mapping purposes; they are well developed and calibrated on numero...
Object ID: issw-2012-591-598.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, hazard mapping, photogrammetry,
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Title: Automated Avalanche Deposit Mappping from VHR Optical Imagery
Date: 2012
Authors: Matthew J. Lato, Regula Frauenfelder, Yves Bühler
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
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Title: The Avalanche Events of December 2008 in Ceresole Reale (Piedmont Western Italian Alps)
Date: 2009
Authors: M. Maggioni, A. Caimi, D. Godone, M. Freppaz, A. Bertea, M. Cordola, M.C. Prola, V. Bertoglio, B. Frigo
Description: December 2008 was characterized by intense precipitations, in particular in the middle of the month (14th – 17th) throughout all the Italian We...
Object ID: issw-2009-0025-0029.pdf
Keywords: avalanche case study, extreme event, mapping, forest damage
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Title: Spatially Predicting Surface Hoar Crystal Size in Sparse Forests Using Shading in Satellite Imagery
Date: 2009
Authors: Cora Shea, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Surface hoar size and location can help predict avalanche trigger points after burial. This paper presents an empirical model to predict the size of s...
Object ID: issw-2009-0102-0106.pdf
Keywords: spatial variability, surface hoar, mapping, prediction, satellite imagery
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Title: Automated Detection and Mapping of Rough Snow Surfaces Including Avalanche Deposits Using Airborne Optical Remote Sensing
Date: 2009
Authors: Yves Bühler, Andreas Hüni, Marc Christen, Roland Meister, Tobias Kellenberger
Description: The characteristics of snow pack surfaces are spatially and temporally highly variable. Today, in situ field observations provide mostly isolated info...
Object ID: issw-2009-0170-0174.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, avalanche mapping, airborne digital scanner, rapid mapping, snow surface roughness, wind modelled snowpack
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Title: Identification of Areas Potentially Affected by Extreme Snow Avalanche Combining Expert Rules, Flow-Routing Algorithms and Statistical Analysis
Date: 2009
Authors: Matteo Pagliardi, Massimiliano Barbolini, Paolo Corradeghini, Francesco Ferro
Description: An innovative methodology to perform avalanche hazard mapping that combines open source GIS tools, expert rules, computational routines, and statisti...
Object ID: issw-2009-0468-0471.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, hazard mapping, grass geographic information systems (gis), flow-routing algorithm, run-out angle
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Title: Using High Resolution LiDAR Data to Estimate Potential Avalanche Release Areas on the Example of Polish Mountain Regions
Date: 2009
Authors: Pawel Chrustek, Piotr Wezyk
Description: Mountains in Poland (with height over 500 m a.s.l.) cover only 3,1% of the total country area so avalanches are a less serious problem than in e.g. al...
Object ID: issw-2009-0495-0499.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, potential release areas, geographic information systems (gis), lidar, als data, avalanche mapping
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Title: The Current State of Avalanche Risk Analysis and Hazard Mapping in Uzbekistan
Date: 2009
Authors: Eleonora Semakova, Sergey Myagkov, Richard L. Armstrong
Description: This paper includes new results of avalanche mapping in Uzbekistan. The avalanche caused damage distribution in Uzbekistan is presented. The descript...
Object ID: issw-2009-0509-0513.pdf
Keywords: potential danger territories, avalanche risk, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: Using AVAL-1D to Simulate Avalanches in Eastern Pyrenees
Date: 2009
Authors: Pere Oller, Marc Janeras, Hèctor de Buen, Georgina Arnó, Marc Christen, Carles García, Pere Martínez
Description: The numerical avalanche dynamics program AVAL-1D, developed by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, was calibrated empirically with ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0524-0528.pdf
Keywords: hazard mapping, aval-1d, pyrenees, friction parameters
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Title: Observing and Forecasting Snow Surface Temperatures for Nordic Ski Race Courses at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC
Date: 2008-09-23
Authors: Wendy Wagner, John D. Horel
Description: Fast skis play an essential role in a nordic athlete's Olympic performance. Using the right combination of ski wax depends on accurate forecasts of th...
Object ID: P__8071.pdf
Keywords: snow surface temperature, snow, thermal mapping, 2010 olympics
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Title: Avalanche Hazard Mapping for Snowmobiles and Other Winter Trail Users
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Bob Comey, Chris McCollister
Description: Snowmobilers have become the most likely user group in the United States to become involved in a fatal avalanche (Utah Avalanche Center, 2008). Greate...
Object ID: P__8137.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, snowmobile trails, geographic information systems (gis)
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