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Title: CHARACTERIZING DIFFERENCES AMONG AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING APPROACHES: A MULTI-INSTITUTION COMPARISON AT ROGERS PASS, CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: John Sykes, Stephan Harvey, Paula Spannring, Christoph Hesselbach, Kalin Markov, Pascal Haegeli, Grant Statham
Description: Automated avalanche terrain mapping has become an established approach for communicating avalanche terrain exposure to public and professional backcou...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.7.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping, avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates), runout simulation, model comparison
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Title: FOLLOWING THE DATA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A DECADE OF MAPPING AVALANCHES AND EXPLOSIVE USE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alex Mithoefer, Malia Reeves, Taos Ski Patrol
Description: Taos Ski Valley Ski Patrol has been using GIS mapping software to record explosive use and avalanche activity since 2015. In over a decade, we have d...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.3.pdf
Keywords: mapping, explosives, avalanches, ski resort, avalanche mitigation, gis
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Title: ADAPTING AVALANCHE HAZARD MAPPING TO A CHANGING CLIMATE – EMERGING PRACTICAL APPROACHES AND UNCERTAINTIES
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Simon Grüter, Flurina Schnider, Damian Steffen, Stefan Margreth
Description: Avalanche hazard mapping in Switzerland is based on long-established regulations and methods and provides a valuable basis for avalanche risk manageme...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.20.pdf
Keywords: climate change, hazard mapping, case study, avalanche path, wet snow avalanche
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Title: AVALANCHE HAZARD IDENTIFICATION IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA APENNINES: A STATISTICAL EMPIRICAL APPROACH BASED ON THE RUN-OUT RATIO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Sabbadini R., Cau M., Anfossi G., Fanari F., Dondi C., Mazzini E., Chiambretti I.
Description: In this study, a statistical-empirical methodology was developed to rapidly identify potential avalanche hazard zones in the Emilia-Romagna Apennines ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.24.pdf
Keywords: potential release area (pra), avalanche hazard mapping, northern apennines, run-out ratio, gumbel distribution, risk mitigation, civil protection, gis
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Title: FROM SCOTTISH SNOW PATCHES TO GLOBAL SNOW COVER: A DEEP LEARNING APPROACH TO SNOW COVER FRACTION RETRIEVAL
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Leam Howe, Richard Essery, Elliot J. Crowley
Description: Optical snow mapping products are often developed and validated on regions with deep, clean, continuous snowpacks under clear skies. Maritime mountain...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.59.pdf
Keywords: snow cover mapping, fractional snow cover, remote sensing, sentinel-2, deep learning, maritime snowpack, scotland
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Title: MISSION-FOCUSED RISK MAPPING FOR AVALANCHE CONTROL IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Chris Argue, Danyelle Magnan
Description: Avalanche control for the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway through Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park (GNP) relie...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.16.pdf
Keywords: risk, artillery, avalanche, control, mapping.
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Title: LIDAR DERIVED RELATIVE SNOW DEPTH MAPPING TO PREDICT PERSISTENT WEAK LAYER TRIGGER AREAS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Bjoern Bingham, Joseph Ammatelli, Dan McEvoy
Description: Persistent slab avalanches are a leading cause of avalanche fatalities, in part because persistent weak layers (PWLs) are difficult to detect. A key r...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.38.pdf
Keywords: lidar; persistent weak layers; shallow snow; mapping; cross-validation
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Title: EVOLUTION OF AVALANCHE MAPPING IN VENETO OVER 40 YEARS: FROM CLPV TO A WEBGIS-BASED SYSTEM
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Germano Dorigo, Carlo Bee, Giovanna Burelli, Roberta Dainese, Igor Chiambretti
Description: The WebGIS-Valanghe portal represents a significant technological tool, developed by the Arabba Avalanche Centre of ARPA Veneto, with the technologica...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.27.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mapping, geographic information system, avalanche cadastre
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Title: APPLYING AUTOMATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN MAPPING TO WILDLIFE ECOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF DALL'S SHEEP IN SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Heather K. Thamm, John Sykes, Nicholas L. Fowler, Thomas D. Lohuis, Kyle R. Smith, Erich H. Peitzsch, Todd J. Brinkman, Ophélie H. Couriot
Description: Avalanche hazard has been studied extensively in the context of human risk, but its role in alpine wildlife ecology remains poorly understood. Long-te...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.36.pdf
Keywords: alaska, avalanches, avalanche terrain, dall's sheep, hazard mapping, mountain ungulates
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Title: AN AUTOMATED METHOD FOR REGIONAL AVALANCHE ALPHA-ANGLE CHARACTERIZATION BASED IN WESTERN CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Declan Knies, John Sykes, Pascal Haegeli
Description: The Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) is used to communicate spatial susceptibility to avalanche terrain (Statham and Campbell 2025). Historical...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.45.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping; flowpy; runout simulation; model validation; alpha-angle
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Title: AUTOATES V3.0: AUTOMATED ATES MAPPING AT SCALE ACROSS WESTERN CANADA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: John Sykes, Declan Knies, Pascal Haegeli, Kristin Anthony-Malone, Grant Statham
Description: Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) maps help backcountry travelers understand how exposed a piece of terrain is to avalanche hazard. Making those...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.48.pdf
Keywords: automated avalanche terrain mapping; avalanche terrain exposure scale (ates); runout simulation; model validation; trip planning
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Title: STATEWIDE AVALANCHE HAZARD MODELING ALONG ALASKA'S TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Gabriel J. Wolken, Elizabeth Fischer, Yves Bühler, Marc Christen, Katreen Wikstrom Jones
Description: Alaska's road and rail network traverses some of the most active and least observed avalanche terrain in North America, creating persistent challenges...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, transportation corridors, alaska, hazard indication mapping, climate reanalysis.
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Title: FROM MILITARY OUTPOST TO MAJOR ALPINE RESORT: OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DIGITALIZATION OF THE PATROL AND RESCUE SERVICE IN THE ANDERMATT–SEDRUN–DISENTIS SKI RESORT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Carlo Danioth, Stefanie Cavaletti, Luc Danioth, David Monn, Björn Becker, Matthias Pleyer, Walter Steinkogler
Description: Over the past two decades, Andermatt has grown from a military-influenced mountain village into one of central Switzerland's most significant winter s...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, transportation corridors, alaska, hazard indication mapping, climate reanalysis.
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Title: AVALANCHE PROBABLE RELEASE AREAS (PRA) – TESTING THE PROCEDURE IN NW ITALY
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Chiambretti Igor, Bovet Eloïse, Debernardi Andrea, Lanteri Luca Maria
Description: Snow avalanche hazard mapping has been well-established in the Italian Alps for 40 to 60 years. Cadastre and CLPA-CLPV maps (Probable Avalanche Locati...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P1.23.pdf
Keywords: probable release areas, avalanche hazard mapping
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Title: CLIMATE ATTRIBUTION FOR SNOW AVALANCHES HAZARD. A CASE STUDY IN ITALY.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Lucia Ferrarin, Daniele Bocchiola
Description: We introduce a comprehensive framework to assess i) future avalanche hazard, and ii) explicit climate change attribution, with the case study of mount...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.5.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, dynamic modelling, hazard mapping, avalanche forest interaction, snow erosion, snow entrainment.
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