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- Title: TO PROBE OR NOT TO PROBE: EVALUATING FINE SEARCH STANDARDS AND THE ROLE OF PROBING IN SHALLOW BURIAL PROFESSIONAL RESCUE SCENARIOS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ben Merkle
- Description: The first thirty minutes of the avalanche burial survival curve are the steepest, and even small time savings in gaining airway access can improve pat...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, professional rescue, shallow burial, probe, fine search
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- Title: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UIAA 157 STANDARD FOR AVALANCHE RESCUE PROBES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Davide Rogora, Vittorio Bedogni
- Description: In 2013, the UIAA Safety Commission has decided to develop standards for avalanche rescue equipment such as avalanche rescue shovels and avalanche res...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.62.pdf
- Keywords: uiaa safety label, avalanche rescue probe, product standards, material testing
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- Title: COMPARISONS OF VERTICAL SNOW HARDNESS PROFILES BETWEEN THE SNOWMICROPEN, SNOW SCOPE AND MANUAL METHODS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Kelly Elder, Zach Keskinen, Chris McCaslin, Anna Valentine, Hans-Peter Marshall
- Description: Spatial information on snow strength is difficult to collect, interpret, and display. Hardness is often used as a proxy for strength because it is rel...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.35.pdf
- Keywords: snow profile, hardness, stratigraphy, digital probe
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- Title: ADVANCEMENTS IN THE LYTE PROBE: IMPROVING SNOW CHARACTERIZATION AND AVALANCHE WORK THROUGH MULTI-SENSOR APPROACHES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Micah J. Johnson, Michael S. Town, Tate G. Meehan
- Description: The Lyte probe is a multi-sensored, manually-driven penetrometer/reflectometer, designed for operational snow safety and scientific research - priorit...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.39.pdf
- Keywords: smart probe, penetrometer, near-infrared, snow hardness, density, lyte probe
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- Title: OPTIMIZED TOPOGRAPHY TRACING OUTFIT SNOW DEPTH PROBE (OTTO SDP): OPEN SOURCE, LIGHTWEIGHT, AND FAST GEOLOCATED GROUND TRUTH
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Jerry C. Mock, Hans-Peter Marshal, Thomas Van Der Weide, Josh Enterkine
- Description: The Optimized Topography Tracing Outfit Snow Depth Probe (OTTO SDP) version 23.1 is an open-source R&D effort to fill a need in the snow science commu...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.42.pdf
- Keywords: depth probe, validation, technology, open source
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- Title: Bringing the Near Infrared Light to Practice
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Micah Johnson, Jacob Taubenheim, Drew M. Eldred, Ryan Stevenson
- Description: The infrared light spectrum has proven to be an area with great potential for snow science. Most of the work performed to date has been to understand ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.41.pdf
- Keywords: nir, probe, faceting
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- Title: Validation Study of AvaTech's Rapid Snow Penetrometer, SP1
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Eric R. Lutz, Hans-Peter Marshall
- Description: We validate early prototypes of SP1, a light-weight rapid-push snow penetrometer developed and produced by MIT-based start-up AvaTech. The device reco...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.48.pdf
- Keywords: probe, penetrometer, hardness, stratigraphy, sp1, smp.
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- Title: Slalom Probing - A Survival Chance Optimized Probe Line Search Strategy
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Dominique Letang, Fred Jarry, Ingrid Reiweger, Dale Atkins
- Description: Probe line searches are an important tool for organized avalanche rescue. Since electronic search means or avalanche dogs are not always available, pr...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O15.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, probe line, survival chance
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- Title: Different Surveys Techniques to Assess the Snow Erosion and Deposition at the Punta Seehore Avalanche Test Site
- Date: 2012
- Authors: E. Bovet, B. Chiaia, M. Maggioni, D. Godone, M. Freppaz
- Description: The aim of this paper is to describe the surveys techniques, used at the Seehore avalanche test site located in Aosta Valley (NW Italy), concerning th...
- Object ID: issw-2012-277-284.pdf
- Keywords: snow erosion, terrestrial laser scanning, deposited layer, probe pole
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- Title: In-Situ Measurements and Temporal Evolution of the Thermal Conductivity Profile of an Alpine Snowpack
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Samuel Morin, Florent Domine, Laurent Arnaud, Ghislain Picard, Hans-Werner Jacobi, Jean-Marie Willemet
- Description: We report on a 3-months long time series of in-situ measurements of the thermal conductivity(kT) of snow at 6 fixed heights in an alpine snowpack in t...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0077-0081.pdf
- Keywords: thermal conductivity, snow, heated-needle probe, crocus snowpack model
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- Title: Avalanche Scenario with Double Burial the Effectiveness of Different Rescue Equipment, Specific Operational Methods and Their Benefits for Companion Rescue
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Hauer Othmar, Eck Markus, Schober Michael
- Description: For this study a field test was carried out to determine the total time needed by
independently working test persons to locate two active transmitter...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0675-0680.pdf
- Keywords: triple antenna beacons with marking function, beacons without marking function, three circle method, electronic probe, micro strip searching
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- Title: Strategic Shoveling: The Next Frontier in Companion Rescue
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Dale Atkins
- Description: With the widespread use of digital avalanche transceiver technology, search times for companion rescue have decreased significantly. Dedicated transce...
- Object ID: issw-2006-522-529.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, companion rescue, shovel, probe, transceiver, beacon
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- Title: Probing for Avalanche Victims Revisited
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Henry Ballard, Dale Atkins, Lin Ballard
- Description: A poster presentation that builds upon the results of the Probing for Avalanche Victims
(ISSW 2004). This poster explores the common errors of probe ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-579-583.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, probing, pod, probe line, probe
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- Title: Probing for Avalanche Victims
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Henry Ballard, Dale Atkins, Lin Ballard
- Description: Experience from avalanche rescues and rescue drills reveals that often the buried victim is not found on the first or even second pass of an organized...
- Object ID: issw-2004-343-348.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, probing, pod, probelines, probe
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- Title: Avalanche One-Piece Probe Pole
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Frank P. Rossi
- Description: Aluminum 6061-T6 1/4" Schedule 40 Pipe has been frequently recommended for use in
One-piece Avalanche Probe Poles. Inexpensive additions to this alum...
- Object ID: issw-1998-297.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, probe pole
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