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Title: FROM DETECTION TO DECISION SUPPORT: EXPANDING THE ROLE OF DOPPLER AVALANCHE RADAR IN HAZARD MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Théo St. Pierre Ostrander, Heather Hordowick, Bret Shandro, Eoin Trainor, Peter Barsevskis, Maxence Carrel, Greg Johnson
Description: Avalanche mitigation infrastructure, including remote avalanche control systems, bridges, snowsheds, and large earthen diversion or arresting structur...
Object ID: ISSW2026_FS4.2.pdf
Keywords: doppler radar, planning, operations, monitoring, mitigation.
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Title: IMPROVING WORKER SAFETY AND ACCESS TIMING WITH AVALANCHE RADAR IN A COMPLEX SKI RESORT: CRANS-MONTANA-AMINONA, SWITZERLAND
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Fabrice Meyer, Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen
Description: The Crans-Montana-Aminona (CMA) ski resort lies on the southern side of the Alpine main ridge in Valais, Switzerland, on predominantly south-facing te...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, doppler detection, remote avalanche control, worker safety, ski resort access management
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Title: REMOTE SENSING FOR AVALANCHE PRACTICE AND SCIENCE: WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED, AND HOW CAN WE ADDRESS WHAT IS STILL MISSING?
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Yves Bühler, Andreas Stoffel, Andrea Manconi
Description: Over the past 50 years, remote sensing has evolved from a classified tool for military applications into a public and often freely available source of...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.2.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, drones, satellites, photogrammetry, lidar, radar
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Title: SAR REMOTE SENSING AS A SUPPORT TOOL FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE FORECASTING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alberto Mariani, Jacopo Borsotti, Martin Metzger, Giacomo Villa, Luca Dellarole, Martin Ahrland Stefan, Franz Livio, Fabiano Monti
Description: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing has increasingly been exploited for snow and avalanche research to derive spatially explicit information...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.6.pdf
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; remote sensing; wet snow; snow depth; avalanche deposits
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Title: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN SATELLITES AND FORECASTERS: EXPERIENCES FROM THE SWEDISH MOUNTAINS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jakob Grahn, Daniel Stødle, Petter Palmgren, Anton Grindgärds, Mattias Tarestad
Description: Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can help observe avalanches across large and remote areas, but detection results alone are not enough for ro...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O9.5.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, synthetic aperture radar, avalanche detection, visualisation
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Title: EVALUATING SIMULATIONS AGAINST MEASURED RADAR SPECTRA FROM AN AVALANCHE EVENT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Peter Gauer, Callum Tregaskis, Anselm Köhler, Anna Wirbel, Richard Koschuch
Description: One major purpose of avalanche test sites such as Ryggfonn is to obtain measurements that can be used to characterize avalanche dynamics and to suppor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dynamics, measurements, radar velocity spectra, synthetic spectra
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Title: DATA-DRIVEN PREDICTION OF SATELLITE-OBSERVED AVALANCHE ACTIVITY FROM SNOWPACK SIMULATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jakob Grahn, Filippo Maria Bianchi, Bert Kruyt, Karsten Müller
Description: Avalanche forecasting requires knowledge of the snowpack and recent avalanche activity, but both are difficult to keep track of across large mountain ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.46.pdf
Keywords: avalanche activity; synthetic aperture radar; snowpack; deep learning; remote sensing
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Title: Advancements In Avalanche Mitigation and Monitoring – Mt. Superior, Utah
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Théo St. Pierre Ostrander, Steven Clark, Laurie Delaney, Maxence Carrel
Description: Mt. Superior, situated within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah, United States, generates avalanches that pose a significant hazard to s...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.6.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, mitigation, monitoring
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Title: AVALANCHE ACTIVITY MONITORING AND ALARMING AT MOTTEC, VALAIS, SWITZERLAND – A COMBINED APPROACH TO ENSURE CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ólafur Stitelmann, Théo St-Pierre Ostrander, Maxence Carrel, Ivan Sanchez, Marc Délèze
Description: The Mottec power plant is part of the hydropower facility operated by Forces Motrices de la Gougra, located in the Val d'Annievers, Valais, Switzerlan...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.9.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, alarming system, hydro-power plant
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Title: SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT RETRIEVAL FROM SENTINEL-1 INSAR USING A COLLOCATED ACTIVE REFLECTOR AND GNSS REFRACTOMETRY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Paolo Perret, Pedro Espín-López, Guido Luzi, Martina Lodigiani, Lorenzo Silvestri, Tommaso Congiu, Fabrizio Troilo, Francesco Zucca, Marco Pasian
Description: Spaceborne C-band interferometry is sensitive to changes in snow water equivalent (SWE), but it needs a phase reference that is absolute, unambiguous,...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.23.pdf
Keywords: snow water equivalent, gnss refractometry, active radar reflector, insar, sentinel-1, alpine snowpack
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Title: APPLICATIONS FOR RADAR AVALANCHE DETECTION AT NORTH AMERICAN SKI RESORT OPERATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Reid Nolan, Nicole Koshure, Tim Haggerty
Description: Automated avalanche detection systems (AADS) have been utilized by a wide range of operations but have only recently been adopted by North American sk...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.44.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, avalanche forecasting, radar, automated avalanche detection systems (aads), ski resort, avalanche risk management
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Title: SNOWPACK LAYER DETECTION WITH AN IOT RADAR: A COMPARISON WITH MANUAL SNOW PIT OBSERVATIONS AT SODANKYLÄ, FINLAND
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Lauri Nieminen, Leena Leppänen
Description: Characterizing the internal stratigraphy of a seasonal snowpack is a fundamental challenge in snow science, shaped by precipitation events, wind redis...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.49.pdf
Keywords: iot, radar, snow stratigraphy, snowpack
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Title: TOWER-BASED SNOW REMOTE SENSING FOR IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Hans-Peter Marshall, Eli Deeb, Rashmi Shaw, Hans Lievens, Manuela Girotto, Coleman Kane, Jaron Vandenbrouke, Jarne Van Mulders, Thomas Van Der Weide
Description: Microwave snow remote sensing has been challenged by a lack of the ideal frequencies, polarizations, spatial resolution, and temporal resolution, in o...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.55.pdf
Keywords: snow remote sensing, radar, lidar, swe, tower-based observations, retrieval algorithms
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Title: BEYOND INFRASTRUCTURE: AN OFF-GRID, TRAILER-BASED AVALANCHE RADAR FOR REMOTE FORECASTING AND OPERATIONAL DECISION SUPPORT
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Susanne Wahlen, Severin Staehly, Lorenz Meier
Description: Automated avalanche detection provides continuous information on avalanche activity independently of daylight and visibility conditions, and is partic...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.59.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, doppler radar, automated monitoring, off-grid power supply, mobile monitoring, road safety
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Title: ALL-WEATHER AVALANCHE MONITORING: RAPID RADAR DEPLOYMENT SUPPORTING DECISION MAKING IN JUNEAU
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: John Bressette, Pat Dryer, Michael Janes, Severin Stähly, Susanne Wahlen
Description: The city center of Juneau, Alaska, lies between the sea and steep mountain terrain, with several neighborhoods located in avalanche runout zones. Duri...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.55.pdf
Keywords: avalanche radar, doppler detection, urban avalanche hazard, evacuation decision-making, juneau, alaska
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