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- Title: Evidence Supporting the Efficacy of Avalanche Airbags and the Development of the Remote Airbag Activation on Snowmobiles
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Franz KROELL
- Description: This paper will look at the efficacy and limitations of the Avalanche Airbag for Backcountry skier, Freerider and Snowmobiler using current statistics...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-59.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche airbag, effectiveness, snowmobile, remote activation, wireless activation, rate of burial, rate of survival
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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: Integrating the ATES into the Avalanche Information in Aran Valley (Central Pyrenees)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Jordi Gavaldà , Ivan Moner, Montse Bacardit
- Description: During the 2011-12 winter season, the Aran Avalanche Center established an Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) pilot area in Aran Valley. The ATES...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-01.pdf
- Keywords: ates, avalanche terrain, trip planner, aran valley, pyrenees
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- Title: A Proposed Practical Model for Zoning with the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Brian Gould
- Description: Since 2009, the Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale (ATES) has been used to zone avalanche terrain in western Canada and many other alpine nations. Despi...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-02.pdf
- Keywords: ates, avalanche, terrain, zoning, model
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- Title: Risk Management With Mandatory Upper Risk Threshold in the World’s Largest Mountaineering School
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Manuel Genswein, Krister Kristensen
- Description: At the beginning of the new millennium, the DAV Summit Club, the commercial mountaineering school of the German Alpine Club and world’s largest...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-03.pdf
- Keywords: risk management, residual risk threshold, mountain guiding
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- Title: Progression en Terrain Enneigé Progression in a Snowy Environment
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Paul Bonhomme and Copil
- Description: Whether it is in winter, in summer or still for a journey, the guide is very often brought
to evolve in snowy environment. Beyond this, he is the onl...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-04.pdf
- Keywords: management, constraints, tools, project
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- Title: Ash and Snow, Impact on the Avalanche Hazard of Ash Layers in the Snowpack
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Cedric Larcher, Diego Seba
- Description: On the 4th of June 2011, the Cordon del Caulle Volcano situated in the Chilean Andes
exploded sending a huge amount of ash and volcanic material into...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-05.pdf
- Keywords: ash, volcano, avalanche, snow, snowpack, stability
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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: White Risk 2.0 – A New Web-Based Platform for Avalanche Education
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Samuli Aegerter, Daniel Landolt
- Description: In 2006 we developed the interactive learning CD „White Risk“ for promoting avalanche awareness. It rapidly became a popular product for a...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-08.pdf
- Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, web-based platform, e-learning, didactics, trip planning
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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: Snow Dangers and Avalanche Prevention Through the Organization of a Federation and the Training of Its Instructors and Members
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Charles Daubas
- Description: Je voudrais aujourd’hui tout d’abord remercier le Comité d’organisation de me permettre de présenter, au nom de la FédÃ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-10.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, prevention, danger, training
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- Title: Formation Des Moniteurs de Ski au Hors-Piste
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Horspiste
- Description: Nos montagnes offrent un formidable terrain de jeux aux mille facettes. Elles sont créatrices d’une sensation de liberté inégalable. C...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-12.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, skiing
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- Title: La Chamoniarde, 40 Years of Avalanche Risk Prevention for Off-Piste Skiers and Ski-Tourers in Chamonix
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Ludovic Ravanel
- Description: With a long tradition of skiing and mountaineering, and deeply committed to the principle of responsibility of mountain practitioners, Chamonix has de...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-13.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche risk for practitioners, information, education, training, chamonix
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- Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
- Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
- Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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- Title: Assessing the Impact of Avalanche Safety Training Courses in Andorra (2009 – 2012)
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Aina Margalef, Pere Esteban
- Description: Since 2009, the EDNA has been performing courses about safety on avalanche terrain in Andorra. After 4 years, we carried out a survey asking the atten...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety course, transceiver training, risk perception
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