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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: 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: Snow Characterization by Optical Properties
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Mathias Gergely, Martin Schneebeli, Kurt Roth
- Description: Snow optics offers an opportunity to measure physical properties of a vertical snow
profile or a snow surface by unbiased, high-resolution and time-s...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0087-0091.pdf
- Keywords: optical properties, reflectance, transmittance, grain size, density
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- Title: Spatially Predicting Surface Hoar Crystal Size in Sparse Forests Using Shading in Satellite Imagery
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Cora Shea, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Surface hoar size and location can help predict avalanche trigger points after burial. This paper presents an empirical model to predict the size of s...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0102-0106.pdf
- Keywords: spatial variability, surface hoar, mapping, prediction, satellite imagery
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- Title: Satellite Observed SCA and Gamma Distributed Snow in the HBV Model
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Thomas Skaugen, Frode Randen
- Description: Areas having a seasonal snowpack experience a risk of melt-floods. The magnitude of such a flood is highly dependent on the available water stored in ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0184-0186.pdf
- Keywords: snow modelling, satellite observed sca, swe, snow distribution
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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: Airborne Detection of Avalanche Victims with Ground Penetrating Radar
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Achim Heilig, Martin Schneebeli
- Description: The detection of buried avalanche victims not wearing a beacon is an important
problem for rescue operations. The development of a fast and reliable ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-660-666.pdf
- Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), avalanche victim, airborne detection
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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: Wind Sensing Techniques and Methods for Wide Geographic Area Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Cameron G. Rawlinson
- Description: The paper reviews past and present methods for wind sensing used in British Columbia with a focus on the avalanche forecasting and control industries....
- Object ID: issw-2002-436-442.pdf
- Keywords: wind sensing, snow drifting, snow transport, snow loads, field measurements
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- Title: The Remote Monitoring of Avalanche Activity
- Date: 1996
- Authors: G. Statham, A. Wilson, J. Kelly, R. Bilak
- Description: Observing and recording avalanche activity is one of the most important factors when assessing snow stability and preparing a forecast. This informati...
- Object ID: issw-1996-198-199.pdf
- Keywords: starting zones, path, snow stability
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- Title: Bc Ministry of Transportation and Highways Remote Weather Station System Overview
- Date: 1988
- Authors: J. Bay
- Description: The British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Highways Snow Avalanche Section currently maintains a province-wide network of 22 remote weather s...
- Object ID: issw-1988-155-157.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, weather stations, hazard, computer
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- Title: Remote Sensing of Snow Albedo
- Date: 1982
- Authors: Jeff Dozier
- Description: When energy-balance snowmelt models are to be evaluated over an extensive area of
high relief, accurate on-site measurement of albedo at adequate tem...
- Object ID: issw-1982-020-021.pdf
- Keywords: terrain, remote sensing, point spectral irradiances
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