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Title: Regional scale statistical mapping of snow avalanche likelihood and its combination with an optical remote sensing based avalanche detection approach - first attempts for the province of South Tyrol (Italy)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Sarah Nolting, Carlo Marin, Stefan Steger, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Claudia Notarnicola, Claudia Notarnicola, Marc Zebisch
Description: Snow avalanches are potentially dangerous phenomena in many mountainous areas worldwide. Most avalanche related research concentrates on a detailed an...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.10.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, change detection, generalized additive model, optical remote sensing, sentinel-2.
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Title: Photogrammetric snow depth mapping: evaluation of different platforms and sensors
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Lucie Eberhard, Mauro Marty, Andreas Stoffel, Robert Kenner, Yves Bühler
Description: Until today, snow depth data is mostly estimated based on point measurements, either collected manually or at automated weather stations. New photogra...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P04.15.pdf
Keywords: snow depth, snow water equivalent swe, photogrammetry, remote sensing, alpine terrain.
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Title: Community Snow Observations (CSO): A Citizen Science Campaign to Validate Snow Remote Sensing Products
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Katreen Wikstrom Jones, Gabriel Wolken, David Hill, Ryan Crumley, Anthony Arendt, Jonah Joughin, Landung Setiawan
Description: The ability to quantify seasonal water retention and storage in mountain snow packs has implications for an array of important topics, including forec...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O05.3.pdf
Keywords: citizen science, crowd-sourced data, snow distribution, snow hydrology, remote sensing, mountain hub.
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Title: Using machine learning and snow water equivalent reconstruction to predict today's SWE and avalanche conditions in Afghanistan
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Edward Hamilton Bair, Karl Rittger, Jeff Dozier
Description: In Afghanistan, in situ snow measurements have been nonexistent. Thus, operational snowpack estimates use satellite sensors, with limitations. An accu...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O05.4.pdf
Keywords: afghanistan, machine learning, swe, remote sensing.
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Title: Social, economic and ecologic benefits of small ski resorts: A local resilience model for the Alps?
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Martha Gärber, Sara Casagrande Bacchiocchi, Susanne Elsen, Giulia Cavrini, Stefan Zerbe
Description: South Tyrol (Northern Italy) has a strong cultural identity due to the cultural history, the border situation, a gross domestic product depending larg...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.1.pdf
Keywords: local community building, young talents, regional development, remote regions, sustainability.
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Title: Remote sensing techniques for helping decision-making in the management of ski areas
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Pons, M., López, Moreno J.I., Revuelto, J., Alonso, E., Vilella, M., Travesset, O., Apodaka, J., Pesado, C., Margalef., A., Iravani, P.
Description: In recent years different remote sensing techniques have been proved to be very useful for snow measurement and monitoring in alpine environments. Ter...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.4.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, lidar, terrestrial laser scanner, uav, snow management
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Title: PROSNOW - Provision of a prediction system allowing for management and optimization of snow in alpine ski resorts
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Samuel Morin, Ghislain Dubois, The PROSNOW Consortium
Description: The level of activity, employment, turnover and profit of hundreds of ski resorts in the European Alps primarily depends on meteorological conditions,...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P06.11.pdf
Keywords: snow management, ski resorts, meteorological forecast, seasonal forecast, climate services, remote sensing
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Title: Detecting Backcountry Avalanches in the Teton Range with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Danielle M. Barna, Robert H. Comey, Chris McCollister
Description: Backcountry avalanche activity represents a significant gap in many avalanche centers’ databases. To mitigate this we applied remote sensing te...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P07.2.pdf
Keywords: synthetic aperture radar, remote sensing, satellites
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Title: The Valalanche project: putting recent progress in snow avalanche mapping into practice
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Martin Proksch, Bernhard Dräyer, Damian Steffen, Ivan Pašić, André Burkard, Norbert Carlen
Description: Avalanche mitigation as well as decision making depends on the knowledge of historical avalanche records. However, the accurate mapping of avalanches ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O09.3.pdf
Keywords: avalanche mapping, digital documentation systems, operational tools, it solutions, remote sensing, uav, smartphone.
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Title: When do avalanches release: investigating time scales in avalanche formation
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Matthias Heck, Bettina Richter, Betty Sovilla, Frank Techel
Description: Forecasting snow avalanches requires a detailed understanding of the influence of meteorological boundary conditions on avalanche formation. For insta...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O11.1.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote avalanche detection, detrended cross-correlation, avalanche formation, meteorological drivers
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Title: Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring From Space: Creating a Complete Avalanche Activity Dataset for a Norwegian Forecasting Region
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Eirik Malnes
Description: Complete and consistent avalanche activity records, critical for avalanche forecasting, are with traditional monitoring methods not achievable in an e...
Object ID: ISSW16_O9.01.pdf
Keywords: radar remote sensing, avalanche detection, sentinel-1a, change detection
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Title: Microwave Radar Systems for Detecting Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: David G. Long, Andre Brummer, Bill Nalli
Description: Key roads in the Western U.S. are often closed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately, they generally occur in well-defined paths. Knowing when ...
Object ID: ISSW16_O14.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche detection, radar, remote sensing
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Title: The Eye in the Sky: Avalanche Mapping From Space
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Regula Frauenfelder, Timothy Glassett, Christian Jaedicke, Malte Vöge, Carlo Robiati
Description: The Seward Highway in Alaska has over one hundred avalanche paths spread out along a 150 km major transportation corridor, which traverses three diffe...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.18.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanche, remote sensing, sentinel satellites, transportation corridor
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Title: Design and Operation of Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) - a Best-Practice Example in the Alps
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen
Description: This paper gives insights in how to design and operate Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) from the initial project planning to the operational av...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.48.pdf
Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, risk management, design and operation
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Title: Hot-Spots and Hot-Times: Exploring Alternatives to Public Avalanche Forecasts in Canada's Data Sparse Northern Rockies Region
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Ilya Storm, R.Grant Helgeson
Description: Over the past six winters the Canadian Avalanche Centre's North Rockies Region accounted for 10% of British Columbia avalanche fatalities. The North R...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O4.03.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, data sparse, remote, public safety
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