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Title: Snow Avalanche Research and Forecasting With GIS and Geospatial Sciences
Date: 2010
Authors: Alex Marienthal, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
Description: Geographic information systems (GIS) and geospatial sciences have been used effectively in data collection and snow avalanche related research for ove...
Object ID: ISSW_P-073.pdf
Keywords: forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), geospatial sciences, snow pack, research
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Title: Using GIS and Google Earth for the Creation of the Going-to-the-Sun Road Avalanche Atlas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Date: 2010
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre, Mark Dundas
Description: Snow avalanche paths are key geomorphologic features in Glacier National Park, Montana, and an important component of mountain ecosystems: they are is...
Object ID: ISSW_P-098.pdf
Keywords: google earth, geographic information systems (gis), glacier national park, montana, biodiversity, atlas
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Title: Statistical Avalanche Run-Out Modelling Using GIS on Selected Slopes of Western Tatras National Park, Slovakia
Date: 2009
Authors: Marek Biskupič, Ivan Barka
Description: Without doubt avalanche run-out distances play a key role in landuse planning within avalanche prone areas. The Žiarska valley in Western Tatras i...
Object ID: issw-2009-0482-0487.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, geographic information systems (gis), run-out modelling, western tatras
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Title: GIS Aided Avalanche Warning in Norway
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Christian Jaedicke, Kalle Kronholm, Krister Kristensen, Steinar Bakkehøi
Description: By 2008 detailed avalanche warning for the entire Norway is not available. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute only issues a general warning for la...
Object ID: P__8128.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, geographic information systems (gis), internet
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Title: Geowax.net (Geographic Weather and Avalanche Explorer), An Extension to ArcGIS 9.2
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Christopher M. McCollister
Description: GeoWAX (Geographic Weather and Avalanche eXplorer), which was presented at ISSW 2002, was developed as stand alone software written in Visual Basic 6....
Object ID: P__8029.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, geographic information systems (gis), nearest neighbors, kml
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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: Developing a GIS Avalanche Forecasting Model Using Real-Time Weather Telemetry Information for the South Side of MT. Hood
Date: 2004
Authors: Logan Cookler, Beth Orton
Description: Recently, the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) has been applied in the field of avalanche forecasting. These approaches have mainly used hi...
Object ID: issw-2004-145-152.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), geographic visualization
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Title: Online Decision Support Tool for Avalanche Risk Management
Date: 2004
Authors: Patrick Nairz, Karel Kriz, Michaela Kinberger
Description: The Avalanche Warning Center Tyrol (Innsbruck, Austria) together with the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna ha...
Object ID: issw-2004-514-519.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk management, online information system, decision support system
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Title: GIS Data Model
Date: 2004
Authors: Douglas Scott
Description: The intent of this poster presentation is to demonstrate the various GIS data layers used in the documentation and analysis of snow profiles and aval...
Object ID: issw-2004-532-533.pdf
Keywords: release, geographic information systems (gis), avalanche paths, vegetation
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Title: A Probabilistic Technique for Exploring Multi-Scale Spatial Patterns in Historical Avalanche Data By Combining GIS and Meteorological Nearest Neighbors with an Example from the Jackson Hole Ski Area
Date: 2002
Authors: C. McCollister, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, R. Aspinall, R. Comey
Description: Many ski areas, backcountry avalanche centers, highway departments, and helicopter ski operations record and archive daily weather parameters and the ...
Object ID: issw-2002-109-116.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), nearest neighbors, geographic visualization, knowledge discovery in databases
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Title: The Influence of Topographic Parameters on Avalanche Release Dimension and Frequency
Date: 2002
Authors: M. Maggioni, U. Gruber
Description: The avalanche hazard map zones in Switzerland are defined by the frequency and the impact pressure of a potential avalanche event Therefore, it is cru...
Object ID: issw-2002-097-104.pdf
Keywords: release area, topography, release frequency, geographic information systems (gis), statistics, avalanche cadastre
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Title: Snow Information System with the Usage of GIS in Western Himalayas, India
Date: 2002
Authors: Rashpal Kor
Description: The avalanche occurrence in northern Indian Mountains draws significance because of strategic reasons and tourism and poses serious problems for the m...
Object ID: issw-2002-167-174.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), sis, forecasting, zoning, hazard
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Title: Using GIS to Visualize Historical Avalanche Data
Date: 2000
Authors: C. McCollister, K. Birkeland, K. Hansen, R. Aspinall
Description: Most historical avalanche data are stored in tabular form, and are difficult to access and visualize. This project utilizes a Geographic Information S...
Object ID: issw-2000-439.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), historical avalanche data
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Title: Local Verification of the Swiss Avalanche Bulletin
Date: 1998
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Roland Meister, Heiri Leuthold, Britta Allgower
Description: Verification is a difficult yet important part to improve avalanche forecasting. During winter 1996/97 verification activities took place for the are...
Object ID: issw-1998-339-343.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), verification, visualisation
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting With GIS
Date: 1996
Authors: R. Bolognesi, M. Denuelle, L. Dexter
Description: Avalanches depend on snowpack stability as well as terrain conditions. Thus, these two kinds of information are required to perform punctual predictio...
Object ID: issw-1996-011-013.pdf
Keywords: local avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis)
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