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Title: REMOTE AVALANCHE CONTROL AND AUTOMATED AVALANCHE DETECTION SYSTEMS: CURRENT PRACTICE, OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE, AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Scott Thumlert, Paul Harwood, Harlan Shepard, Tim Glassett, Cam Campbell, Eirik Sharp, Brian Gould, Alexis Tessier
Description: Remote avalanche control systems (RACS) and automated avalanche detection systems (AADS) are increasingly used to operationally manage avalanche risk,...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O2.5.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, racs, automated avalanche detection systems, aads, transportation corridors, avalanche explosive control
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Title: TOWARDS AUTOMATIC AVALANCHE DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION USING SEISMIC AND INFRASOUND ARRAY DATA
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Christine Seupel, Patrick Düggelin, Andri Simeon, Cristina Pérez-Guillén, Andreas Fichtner, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Reliable avalanche detection and localization are essential for effective hazard mitigation. They support avalanche forecasting, risk management, and ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, seismic, infrasound, array processing, instrumentation and remote sensing
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Title: AN INTEGRATED MULTI-INSTRUMENT FRAMEWORK FOR OPERATIONAL AVALANCHE RISK MANAGEMENT: THE MILANO CORTINA 2026 WINTER OLYMPICS IN LIVIGNO, ITALY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Fabiano Monti, Alberto Mariani, Martin Metzger, Luca Dellarole, Giacomo Villa, Diana Lazzeri
Description: Avalanche risk management in complex alpine environments increasingly relies on the integration of heterogeneous data sources and modelling approaches...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O5.4.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management; multi-instrument monitoring; snowpack; prism; avaframe; sar remote sensing; winter olympics
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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: THE CHALLENGES OF MANAGING GLACIATED AVALANCHE TERRAIN AT A SKI AREA: LESSONS FROM BLACKCOMB MOUNTAIN
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Koshure, Nicole, Gould, Brian, Campbell, Cam, Tessier, Alexis
Description: Whistler Blackcomb (WB), the largest ski resort in North America, contains glaciated avalanche terrain, including the Horstman and Blackcomb Glaciers....
Object ID: ISSW2026_O6.7.pdf
Keywords: glacial recession, climate change, avalanche terrain, avalanche hazard, risk management, remote sensing, adaptive risk 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: THE EFFECT OF GEOMETRY ON THE GAS DYNAMICS IN AVALANCHE CONTROL GAS EXPLODERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Kevin Cheevers, Logan Maley, Elizabeth Ramey, Matei Radulescu
Description: The avalanche control industry is shifting towards the Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) to protect both public and private infrastructure such ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.44.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, gas dynamics, shock dynamics, cfd
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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: USING HIGH-RESOLUTION VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS TO FORECAST PERSISTENT WEAK LAYER FORMATION
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Seth Waterfall, John Stimberis, Rachel Griffith
Description: Vertical temperature gradients near the snow surface play a critical role in snowpack metamorphism and atmospheric energy exchange. The near-surface b...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.18.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, instrumentation and remote sensing, snowpack properties, modelling and quantitative forecasting
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Title: LOOKING BACK—30 YEARS OF IMPACT: A CALTRANS GAZEX RACS HISTORY
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ryan Marvin
Description: Since its introduction in the early 1990s, Gazex Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) have become a central component of avalanche hazard managemen...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.20.pdf
Keywords: gazex, remote avalanche control, highway avalanche mitigation, caltrans, avalanche safety, racs
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Title: STUDY OF SNOW PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND ASSESSMENY OF SNOWPACK STABILITY TO ANTICIPATE AVALANCHE HAZARDS IN NUNAVIK (CANADA)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Laura Guilhot, Najat Bhiry, Alexandre Langlois
Description: The current warming observed in northern regions such as Nunavik (Canada) has cascading effects on natural and human systems, potentially leading to d...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.21.pdf
Keywords: snowpack properties, nunavik, snowpack model, remote sensing
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Title: A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR ASSESSING THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF STORM TOTALS FROM REMOTE AUTOMATED WEATHER STATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michelle Dalpes, John Sykes, Jason Konigsberg, Spencer Logan
Description: Regional backcountry forecast centers face persistent challenges in understanding the historical significance of ongoing storms. This situational awar...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.23.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, avalanche forecasting, incidents and case studies, instrumentation and remote sensing
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Title: BINARY AVALANCHE DETECTION SYSTEM (BADS)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Michael Dvorsak, William Tidd, Christopher Casebeer, Eric Bressler
Description: Detecting avalanche events in real-time remains a challenge for ski resorts, transportation agencies, railways, and avalanche mitigation professionals...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.26.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, differential pressure sensor, remote sensing, avalanche mitigation, machine learning
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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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