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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: Understanding Travel Behaviour in Avalanche Terrain: A New Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Ellie Southworth
Description: To date, most studies of the human dimensions of decision-making in avalanche terrain has focused on two areas - post-accident analysis using accident...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-09.pdf
Keywords: decision making, human factors, heuristics, gps, gis, terrain analysis
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Title: Avalanches in Nature Protected Areas – Except of Prevention and Rescue, The Need for Education of Nature Protection Arises (Experience from the High Sudetes, Czech Republic)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Milena Kociánová, Roman Juras
Description: Increasing interest in winter free time activities contributes partially to avalanche accidents. Avalanche courses and workshops are one of possibilit...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-24.pdf
Keywords: education, avalanche workshops, courses, nature conservation
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Title: STIPP, A Spanish French Project That Combines Experience and Technology to Dissemimate Information on Both Sides of the Pyrenees in Order to Prevent Risk Situations in Mountain Areas
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Comet B., Dupouy J., Avellanas M, Mayo S., Rodrigalvarez V., Cisneros C., Coll J., Sierra M., Anglés R., Asiain D., Pons A., Robert A., Hurtado R.
Description: Supported by the Interregional Co-operation Program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA INTERREG IV A 2007-2013 the STIPP Project was developed by different ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-32.pdf
Keywords: technology, information, satellite, weather station, server, telemedicine, mountain, healthcare, rescue, crossborder, risk prevention
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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: Snow Safety Control Operations: An Interactive Web-Based Approach
Date: 2012
Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Jim Collinson, Randy Trover, Peter Schory
Description: Snow safety and ski patrol at skis areas are faced with the daunting task of maintaining avalanche control routes and artillery controlled areas. In t...
Object ID: issw-2012-290-293.pdf
Keywords: ski patrolling, starting zones, avalanche run-out, geographic information systems (gis),
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Title: Resuscitation of the Avalanche Victim: An Evidence-Based Guideline
Date: 2012
Authors: Jeff Boyd, Hermann Brugger, Fidel Elsensohn, Peter Paal, Giacomo Strapazzon, Eveline Winterberger, Ken Zafren
Description: Background. Earlier avalanche resuscitation recommendations, published in 1996 and 2001, were principally extrapolated from biostatistical survival an...
Object ID: issw-2012-307-313.pdf
Keywords: avalanche victim resuscitation, victim, asphyxia, ventilation
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Title: National Database for Mitigative Measures Against Rapid Gravity Mass Flows and Rock Falls
Date: 2012
Authors: Árni Jónsson, Egil Syre, Kristine Helene Hetland Ekseth, Helge C. Smebye, Eivind M. Paulsen
Description: Mitigation measures against natural catastrophes, such as rapid gravity mass flows and rock falls, have been built in Norway for centuries. Over the l...
Object ID: issw-2012-680-684.pdf
Keywords: mitigation measures, geographic information systems (gis), database
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Title: Avalanche Terrain Analysis of Hatch Peak at Hatcher Pass, Alaska Using ATES and GIS
Date: 2012
Authors: Rebekah King
Description: Parks Canada created the popular Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES), identifying eleven factors that can increase the probability of an avalanche...
Object ID: issw-2012-689-692.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), ates, terrain analysis hazard mitigation
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Title: Applying Search Theory and Coordinated Incident Management to Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2012
Authors: Don Bogie, Andrew Hobman
Description: Search theory was developed by the USA during World War 2 Koopman (1946, 1980) to make hunting for submarines more effective. Its key concepts of; Ef...
Object ID: issw-2012-740-745.pdf
Keywords: search technology, victim, probability
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Title: Rescue Compass – A Decision Making Tool for Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2012
Authors: Michael Bründl, Hans-Jürg Etter
Description: During avalanche rescue operations rescuers can face considerable risk, while the degree of risk a rescuer should take to save a life is open to deba...
Object ID: issw-2012-746-749.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche accident, decision support, risk management
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Title: GIS Tools for Avalanche Assessment
Date: 2012
Authors: G. Burelli, F. Cucchi, V. Segor
Description: The use of Gis in avalanche assessment is widely adopted, it performs analysis which help to make decisions in land management. The aim of this work ...
Object ID: issw-2012-750-755.pdf
Keywords: geographic information systems (gis), land use planning, avalanche hazard
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Title: ARS Avalanche Rescue Dog Handler Course in Andermatt, Switzerland
Date: 2012
Authors: Sean C. Hopewell
Description: Not Available
Object ID: issw-2012-764-767.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dogs, wasatch, k-9 search and rescue
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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: Adherence to Risk Prevention and Safety Measures in Backcountry Winter Recreationists
Date: 2012
Authors: Procter E., Strapazzon G., Staffler HP, Preindl A., Seebacher F., Castlunger L., Ebner I., Brugger H.
Description: Rapid extrication within 10-20 minutes of complete avalanche burial is essential for survival (Haegeli et al. 2011). Safety equipment, along with basi...
Object ID: issw-2012-827-830.pdf
Keywords: avalanche burial, backcountry, avalanche risk, avalanche safety equipment
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