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Title: FROM SNOW TO SEDIMENT: MAPPING AND QUANTIFYING DIRTY SNOW AVALANCHE DEPOSITS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Magdalena Koschmieder, Johanna Mascher, Lukas Winiwarter, Arnaud Temme
Description: Avalanches have the potential to harm people and livestock as well as damage or destroy infrastructure. Furthermore, avalanches can erode and transpor...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.12.pdf
Keywords: dirty snow avalanches, uav photogrammetry, remote sensing, spring avalanches, sfm, wet-snow avalanches
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Title: DRONE DOCKING STATIONS FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SNOW DEPTH AND AVALANCHE MAPPING: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Yves Bühler
Description: A drone docking station is an autonomous hub designed to support the remote operation of drones, thus eliminating the need for on-site personnel. In w...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.15.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, uas, drone dock, photogrammetry, snow depth.
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Title: MONITORING SNOW COVER IN REMOTE REGIONS USING RADAR INTERFEROMETRY: APPLICATION TO THE RADARSAT CONSTELLATION MISSION (RCM)
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marie-Clara Delage, Alexandre Langlois, Benoît Montpetit
Description: Snow cover is highly variable in space and time, making its characterization particularly challenging in remote and complex environments. Synthetic Ap...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.24.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, snow, insar, rcm, alpine
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Title: Near real-time snow depth monitoring with low-cost lidar sensors for road safety decisions
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Pia Ruttner, Julia Glaus, Yves Bühler
Description: Operational avalanche safety decisions often must be taken under conditions of limited direct observations and sparse spatial data coverage. In partic...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.27.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, snow depth monitoring, low-cost lidar, road safety
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Title: SITE SUITABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND OPERATIONAL LESSONS FROM SIX YEARS OF INFRASOUND AVALANCHE MONITORING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jerry Mock, Scott Havens, Aaron Careaga, Clark Corey
Description: Infrasound monitoring uses low-frequency acoustic signals, typically below 20 Hz, to detect and characterize avalanche activity over operationally use...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.45.pdf
Keywords: infrasonic, avalanche detection, remote monitoring, site suitability, avalanche mitigation
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Title: DENSITY-INSENSITIVE DETERMINATION OF LIQUID WATER CONTENT IN SNOW USING MICROWAVE ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Marco Niederberger, Michel A. Nyffenegger, Albert Loichinger, Fabian Wolfsperger, Alec van Herwijnen, Hans-Dieter Lang
Description: Wet snow avalanche modeling and forecasting remain a significant challenge, in part due to the limitations of currently available instruments for dete...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.47.pdf
Keywords: liquid water content (lwc), snowpack properties, microwave measurement, instrumentation, remote sensing
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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: SMART AVALANCHE CONTROL REDUCES ROAD CLOSURES IN THE AUSTRIAN ALPS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Ines Waltl, Brenden Cronin
Description: The Venter regional road between Sölden and Vent in the Austrian Alps has historically been highly vulnerable to avalanches, particularly along a pre...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.14.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems; active avalanche control; road safety; transportation corridors; avalanche mitigation; sölden
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Title: CLIMATE-SCALE MAPS OF COLD-SEASON TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TRENDS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF COLORADO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Valerie Foley, Jason Konigsberg, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene
Description: Temperature and precipitation patterns in the Colorado mountains are important factors for a variety of practical and research applications, including...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.19.pdf
Keywords: weather forecasting and climate, instrumentation and remote sensing, climate change
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Title: PATROLLING THE SNOW SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Austin Finnell
Description: Avalanche professionals usually build snowpack intuition from weather cues they can directly observe, including sun, cloud cover, air temperature, and...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.2.pdf
Keywords: snowpack properties, instrumentation and remote sensing, weather forecasting
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Title: THERMAL UAS USE DURING A NIGHTTIME SEARCH AT VAIL PASS, COLORADO
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Drew Gibson, Austin Finnell, Aaron J. Parmet
Description: Summit County Rescue Group (SCRG) deployed an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) equipped with a thermal camera during an overnight response for a missing...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.3.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, instrumentation and remote sensing, avalanche response, case studies, unmanned aircraft system, thermal imaging.
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Title: SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF MECHANICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES: GRAND MESA, COLORADO, U.S.A.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Hans-Peter Marshall, Eli Deeb, Paul Siqueira, Kelly Elder, Lee Liberty, Thomas Othiem, Thomas Van Der Weide, Adrian Tang, Zach Hoppinen, Tate Meehan
Description: In order to accurately map slope to basin-scale snow stability at high resolution, spatial estimates of snow mass changes and snow mechanical propert...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.6.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanical properties, radar, spatial variability, remote sensing, snow micropenetrometer
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Title: DETECTING AVALANCHE PATH GROUND COVER AND VEGETATION CHANGE ACROSS MULTIPLE SCALES THROUGH TIME USING REMOTE SENSING TOOLS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Erich Peitzsch
Description: Large-magnitude avalanches often alter vegetation composition, avalanche path dimensions, and subsequent avalanche return periods. Understanding tempo...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P4.2.pdf
Keywords: land change, remote sensing, ndvi, avalanche runout
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Title: A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP: SIERRA NEVADA BIGHORN SHEEP AND SNOW
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Edward Bair, Karl Rittger, Tom Stephenson, Danielle Berger, Kezia Manlove, Huilin Huang, Yun Qian, Carrie Vuyovich
Description: Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep are an endangered species who inhabit avalanche-prone areas of the central and southern parts of the range. Due to severe ...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P5.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, snow, sheep, climate change, remote sensing
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Title: OPTIMISATION OF UAV-BORNE LIDAR SURVEYS FOR SNOW DISTRIBUTION MAPPING
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Sean E. Salazar, Holt Hancock, Regula Frauenfelder, Halgeir Dahle, Emil Solbakken, Tore Humstad
Description: Laser scanners carried by uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proven to be effective data collection tools in mountainous terrain with relativel...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O8.6.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, uav, lidar, mapping
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