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- Title: Triggered Avalanche - a Case Study From the Italian Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Igor Chiambretti, Bernardino Chiaia, Barbara Frigo
- Description: The 6th February 2014, two parties of 25 Heli-skiers (6 guides and 19 clients) and 3 snow observers were on activity on a large bowl at 2800 m elevati...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.02.pdf
- Keywords: heli ski; triggered avalanche; accident case study
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- Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Doug Richmond
- Description: On January 14, 2016 an avalanche occurred on the Football Field of Saddle Peak in Southwest Montana. Saddle Peak is a backcountry slope, located immed...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O8.03.pdf
- Keywords: time-lapse photography, backcountry, case study, terrain use
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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: Supporting, Evaluating, and Planning Avalanche Control Efforts with Lidar-Derived Snow Depth Maps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems, Ryan Evanczyk, Dominic Vellone, Ethan Greene, Tyler Weldon, David C. Finnegan, Peter J. Gadomski, Adam L. LeWinter
- Description: Recent studies have demonstrated the applicability and potential for ground-based lidar mapping to support avalanche control operations. High-resoluti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.02.pdf
- Keywords: lidar, spatial variability, avalanche control, infrastructure planning
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- Title: Front and Internal Velocity Distribution in Powder Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jan-Thomas Fischer, Anselm Köehler, Andreas Kofler, Betty Sovilla, Jim McElwaine
- Description: Accurate velocity measurements of avalanches are essential for testing simulation tools and for performing risk mitigating studies. However, the flow ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurement, velocity, avalanche head dynamics
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- Title: Social Media and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jerry Isaak
- Description: The rapid advance of social media into remote environments, and the resulting "invisible pressure" of everywhereness on many individuals, app...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.02.pdf
- Keywords: technology, human factors, avalanche education, social networks
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- Title: 10 Common Missteps of Avalanche Practitioners
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Todd L. Guyn
- Description: Avalanche practitioners work in a hazardous environment, characterized by a large degree of uncertainty. While extensive operational efforts are under...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, awareness, patience
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- Title: Avalanche Risk in Winter Backcountry Touring: Status and Recent Trends in Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Kurt Winkler, Adrian Fischer, Frank Techel
- Description: Avalanches are the major cause of accidental death while recreating in the mountains during winter. Up to now the calculation of the statistical risk ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk, backcountry touring, snowshoe hiking, mortality rate
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- Title: Gas Diffusion in Wet Avalanche Debris Pertaining to Search and Rescue Dogs
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jocelyn M. Cramer, Eeva Latosuo, Patrick Sullivan
- Description: Avalanche search and rescue dogs are an effective way to recover subjects that have been buried in an avalanche and cannot be located with avalanche t...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche debris, search and rescue dogs, gas diffusion
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- Title: Triage Strategies for Multiple Avalanche Burials – a Monte Carlo Simulation
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Manuel Genswein, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Settings with multiple avalanche burials and a limited number of rescuers require triage strategies, i.e. guidelines for rescuers as to where to devot...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, monte carlo simulation, triage, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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- Title: Probability of Detection and Search Tactical Procedures in Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Manuel Genswein
- Description: The search for a missing person is a race against the clock as survival chances drop very rapidly. The challenge for rescue is to find the proper bala...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O12.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, probability of detection, survival chances
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- Title: Know Before You Go Revision: an Introductory Tool for Influencing Backcountry Behavior
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Craig Gordon, Paul Diegel, Trent Meisenheimer, Brian Lazar, Ethan Greene, Mary Clayton, Aaron Carlson, Bruce Tremper, Mark Staples, Karl Birkland, Tim Bennett
- Description: The open-source Know Before You Go (KBYG) avalanche awareness program provides a 50 minute introduction to avalanche safety for motorized and non-moto...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O13.01.pdf
- Keywords: awareness, education, introductory, video, school, know before you go
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- Title: The Gear Heads – Motor Specific AVY Training
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Brian Lundstedt
- Description: In 2012 an avalanche accident left me shattered. After losing one brother, and nearly both, I quickly realized that we knew nothing. After 20+ yrs of ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O13.02.pdf
- Keywords: motorized, snowmobile, snowbike, avalanche education, american institute of avalanche research and education (aiare)
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- Title: Learn – E-learning Lessons About Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Armin Rempfler
- Description: "Learning by doing" is an obvious credo for every educator. In avalanche terrain, we do this most of the time. However, learning about avalanches also...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O13.03.pdf
- Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, e-learning, avalanche danger assessment, avalanche awareness
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- Title: Real-Time Avalanche Detection with Long-Range, Wide-Angle Radars for Road Safety in Zermatt, Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Lorenz Meier, Mylène F. Jacquemart, Bernhard Blattmann, Bernhard Arnold
- Description: Two notorious avalanche gullies threaten the only access road to Zermatt, Switzerland. Avalanches are released artificially by helicopter blasting whe...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche alarm system, road safety, radar, avalanche detection
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