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Title: Slope-Scale Snowpack Stability Derived from Multiple Snowmicropen Measurements and High-Resolution Terrestrial FMCW Radar Surveys
Date: 2010
Authors: Hans-Peter Marshall, Christine Pielmeier, Scott Havens, Frank Techel
Description: Slope-scale stability assessments from SnowMicroPen (SMP) profiles and from remote sensing techniques would support avalanche forecasting operations, ...
Object ID: ISSW_O-018.pdf
Keywords: snow cover, snow cover stability, snow stability evaluation, micro penetrometer, mechanical properties, avalanche forecasting, remote sensing, radar
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Title: Automated Detection and Mapping of Rough Snow Surfaces Including Avalanche Deposits Using Airborne Optical Remote Sensing
Date: 2009
Authors: Yves Bühler, Andreas Hüni, Marc Christen, Roland Meister, Tobias Kellenberger
Description: The characteristics of snow pack surfaces are spatially and temporally highly variable. Today, in situ field observations provide mostly isolated info...
Object ID: issw-2009-0170-0174.pdf
Keywords: remote sensing, avalanche mapping, airborne digital scanner, rapid mapping, snow surface roughness, wind modelled snowpack
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Title: The Permasense Remote Monitoring Infrastructure
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Beutel, Stephan Gruber, Stefanie Gubler, Andreas Hasler, Matthias Keller, Roman Lim, Igor Talzi, Lothar Thiele, Christian Tschudin, Mustafa Yücel
Description: The PermaSense project, a joint computer science and geoscience project, investigates the influence of climate change on permafrost and specifically t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0187-0191.pdf
Keywords: permafrost, remote sensing, wireless sensors, natural hazard early warning
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Title: High-Resolution Imaging for Environmental Monitoring Applications
Date: 2009
Authors: Matthias Keller, Mustafa Yücel, Jan Beutel
Description: The PermaSense project strives to collect long-term geophysical data for permafrost research in Switzerland. By now, we have successfully established ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0197-0201.pdf
Keywords: imaging, permafrost, remote sensing, wireless camera
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Title: Could Retrieval of Snow Layer Formation by Optical Satellite Remote Sensing Help Avalanche Forecasting? Presentation of First Results.
Date: 2009
Authors: Rune Solberg, Regula Frauenfelder, Hans Koren, Kalle Kronholm
Description: Of special interest within the field of avalanche research and avalanche warning are properties related to snow grain type and snow grain size at the...
Object ID: issw-2009-0207-0210.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, remote sensing, snow grain size, snow temperature, snow wetness
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Title: Helicopter-Based Microwave Radar Measurements in Alpine Terrain
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Hans-Peter Marshall, Karl Birkeland, Kelly Elder, Theo Meiners
Description: Due to the time-consuming nature of traditional snowpit measurements, and the large spatial variability that often exists in alpine snowpacks, tools w...
Object ID: P__8231.pdf
Keywords: snow instrumentation, snow remote sensing, radar, spatial variability
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Title: Emergency Medical Training of Avalanche Professionals: Raising the Standards for Remote Care in Canada
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Dr. Renata Lewis
Description: In Canada, emergency medical training of avalanche professionals who work remotely (guides, park wardens, search and rescue technicians) is typically ...
Object ID: P__8067.pdf
Keywords: emergency medical training, avalanche rescue, remote medicine, pre-hospital training, avalanche professional training, first aid
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Title: Lidar Measurement of Snow Depth: Accuracy and Error Sources
Date: 2006
Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems , Thomas H. Painter
Description: Airborne laser altimetry (lidar) is a remote sensing technology that holds tremendous promise for mapping snow depth in snow hydrology and avalanche a...
Object ID: issw-2006-330-338.pdf
Keywords: lidar, snow depth, remote sensing, spatial variability
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Title: Measuring Snow Depth With a Terrestrial Laser Ranging System
Date: 2006
Authors: Philipp Jörg, Reinhard Fromm, Rudolf Sailer, Andreas Schaffhauser
Description: Knowledge on the spatial and temporal distribution of snow depth is one of the key parameter in the assessment of avalanche hazards, for snow drift a...
Object ID: issw-2006-452-460.pdf
Keywords: tsl, terrestrial scanning laser, remote sensing, snow depth distribution
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Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Assess Avalanche Hazards for New Road Corridors in Alaska
Date: 2006
Authors: Douglas D. Scott
Description: As part of HDR’s Chignik Connectors Project (a road system connecting the three communities of Chignik), assessment and mapping of potential av...
Object ID: issw-2006-465-467.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, alaska, transportation, geographic information systems (gis), terrain modeling, and remote sensing
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Title: Noaa’s National Snow Analyses
Date: 2006
Authors: Tom Carroll, Don Cline
Description: NOAA’s National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) provides comprehensive, near real-time, snow observations, snow analyses,...
Object ID: issw-2006-797-805.pdf
Keywords: energy-and-mass-balance snow model, remote sensing, airborne snow measurements, snow hydrology, water supply, snowmelt flooding
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Title: Hyperspectral Analysis of Direct Shortwave Radiative Forcing of Dust in Mountain Snowcover
Date: 2006
Authors: Thomas H. Painter, Maureen P. Cassidy
Description: Springtime desert dust storms regularly deposit radiatively absorbing dust on the snow cover of the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The ...
Object ID: issw-2006-910.pdf
Keywords: snow, dust, radiative forcing, hyperspectral, remote sensing
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Title: Artificial Release of Avalanches Using the Remote Controlled Wyssen Avalanche Tower
Date: 2002
Authors: Hansueli Gubler, Samuel Wyssen
Description: A new remote controlled system to release avalanches with oversnow detonations using appropriate explosives is presented. The system consists of a sim...
Object ID: issw-2002-040-045.pdf
Keywords: artificial avalanche release, explosives, remote control
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Title: Integration of Remote Weather Stations with Advanced Telemetry Options and Remote Image Acquisition
Date: 2002
Authors: Benjamin Crane Johnson, Ken Irving, Larry Hinzman, Douglas L. Kane
Description: Currently the University of Alaska Fairbanks Water and Environmental Research Center (WERe) maintains over fifty remote meteorological stations in Ala...
Object ID: issw-2002-412-416.pdf
Keywords: telemetry, climate, meteorological hazards and remote sensing
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Title: A Network of Automatic Weather and Snow Stations and Supplementary Model Calculations Providing Snowpack Information for Avalanche Warning
Date: 1998
Authors: Michael Lehning, Perry Bartelt, Bob Brown, Tom Russi, Urs Stockli, Martin Zimmerli
Description: The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) began to construct a network of high Alpine automatic weather and snow measurement ...
Object ID: issw-1998-225-233.pdf
Keywords: remote weather and snow measurements, snowcover simulation, snow cover structure, snow metamorphism, mass balance, energy balance
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