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Title: The Residents’ Evacuations Due to the Avalanches Risk During the Winter 2012-2013 in France
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François RAPIN
Description: Several evacuations of homes were realized in France during the last winter 2012-2013. This had not happened for several years (2008 and 1999). The mu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-44.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, evacuation, crisis management
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Title: Automatic Detection of Avalanches Using Infrasound and Seismic Signals
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: A. Schimmel, J. Hübl
Description: The ability to detect avalanches as they occur is essential for avalanche management and avalanche forecasting. Past studies have shown that avalanche...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-67.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, warning systems, infrasound, seismic
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Title: Snowmonit - Winner of GMES Best Service Challenge 2012
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Francesco Bartoli
Description: SnowMonit is designed to improve services that treat snow avalanche information through Earth Observation data. Snow accumulation, depth, and water e...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-01.pdf
Keywords: snow, gmes, satellite, wms, wmts, esa
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Title: Transceiver Basics and Smart-Antenna-Technology
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ortovox
Description: Modern avalanche transceivers utilize three antennas (X, Y, Z). During searching, all three antennas are used. The X and the Y antenna are used to dis...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-61.pdf
Keywords: transceiver, rescue, avalanche, antenna
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Title: Wikisnow – Interface for Decision Makers in Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Martin Berner und Martin Schuster
Description: The coordination of decision makers that provides customers with a great choice of offpiste guiding and ski tours in the ski resort Arlberg/Austria, ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-06.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, coordination decision makers, wikisnow-infoplatform, app-real time update of events, safe offpiste skiing, arlberg/austria
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Title: Swiss Avalanche Bulletin: Automated Translation With a Catalogue of Phrases
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Kurt Winkler, Martin Bächtold, Stefano Gallorini, Ueli Niederer, Thomas Stucki, Christine Pielmeier, Gian Darms, Lukas Dürr, Frank Techel, Benjamin Zweifel
Description: In order to produce the new Swiss avalanche bulletin twice a day in four languages, a fully automated translation system was needed due to the lack of...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche warning, automated translation, catalogue of phrases, communication
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Title: How Semantics and Resilience from Twitter are Being Used to Avalanche Awareness Risk
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Francesco Bartoli, Igor Chiambretti
Description: Twitter is a new form of communication that makes large use of abbreviations to address specific scopes during the response to natural disasters. Duri...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-36.pdf
Keywords: twitter, resilience, communication, hashtag, semantic, avalanche
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Title: The Avalanche Cadaster of the Valle d’Aosta Region (NW Italian Alps): The New Born Web Portal (http://catastovalanghe.partout.it/)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: A. Debernardi, V. Segor
Description: The Region of Aosta Valley is located in the far north-western part of Italy and share borders, to the north and west, with Switzerland and France. Mo...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-37.pdf
Keywords: avalanches cadaster, web portal, aosta valley, gis, historical memory
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Title: Software Tools Developed for the Swiss Avalanche Warning Service - A System Overview
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Andreas Stoffel, Ulrich Niederer
Description: Today, highly specialized software is required to produce the public avalanche bulletin and complementary snow information. Numerous data sources cont...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-38.pdf
Keywords: geoservices, gis, java, json
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Title: Partner Rescue Skills: An Organizational and Individual Assessment Over the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Winter Seasons at Big Sky Resort
Date: 2012
Authors: Jonathan Binger, Chelan Babineau-Z
Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation work is one of the more hazardous aspects of professional ski patrolling. Ski patrollers rely almost entirely on their par...
Object ID: issw-2012-783-785.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche rescue and survival, ski patrolling
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Title: Spatial, Temporal, and Space-Time Analysis of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Colorado and the United States, 1991 to 2011
Date: 2012
Authors: Spencer Logan, Frank Witmer
Description: An analysis of fatal avalanche accidents in the state of Colorado (CO) and the United States (US) for 20 winters from 1990-91 to 2010-11, compared tem...
Object ID: issw-2012-479-486.pdf
Keywords: accident fatality, cluster analysis, statistics
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Title: 3s Sonic Snow Sensor - A Prototype Acoustic Snow Penetrometer
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Schober, Achim Heilig, Martin Schneebeli, Nora Staack
Description: High-resolution snow penetrometry has resulted in an improved understanding of the mechanical and stratigraphic properties in a snowpack. However, the...
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Keywords: snow penetrometer, mechanical properties, stratigraphic properties, avalanche warning
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Title: Improving the Interoperability and User-Friendliness of the French Snow Avalanche Information Systems
Date: 2010
Authors: Laure Vidaud-Barral, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Michael Deschâtres, Mylène Bonnefoy, Didier Richard
Description: Snow avalanches are rapid mass movements that put humans and material assets at risk with dramatic consequences. Risk reduction is reduced through str...
Object ID: ISSW_P-043.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, information systems, data quality, information sharing, software engineering, interoperability
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Title: Avalanche Warning During Military Field Exercises in Northern Norway
Date: 2010
Authors: Kalle Kronholm, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
Description: Norway frequently hosts the NATO cold weather exercise “Cold Response” in the Northern parts of Norway. Aim of the exercise is to train th...
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Keywords: field exercises, cold response, terrian, climate, avalanche forecasting
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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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