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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: 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: New Technologies: What Roles in the Education and Training? Feedback and Examples
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alain Duclos, Thierry Vallée
Description: Educate, train, improve knowledge: new technologies offer attractive opportunities, but may also have adverse effects. What are these "New Technologie...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-39.pdf
Keywords: social networks, mobile, open data, good practices, education, safety
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Title: Using Google Map Application Programming to Communicate Avalanche Hazard from Multiple Avalanche Centers
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Robert H. Comey, Carol Peck
Description: In the United States (US) there are over 15 separate avalanche centers which operate independently and issue avalanche hazard bulletins for 55 areas i...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-40.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, google map
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Title: Establishing an Avalanche Community and Communication in Japan
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Degawa Azusa, Hirota Yusuke
Description: In any country, the process of establishing a community aimed at avalanche safety and the characteristics of the community are influenced a great deal...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-41.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, avalanche bulletin, avalanche community, communication
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Title: RegObs - Public Database for Submitting and Sharing Observations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ragnar Ekker, Kjetil Kværne, Aslak Os, Tore Humstad, Anders Wartiainen, Vidar Eide, Ravi Kjell Hansen
Description: regObs is a tool for submitting and sharing observations needed by The Norwegian Avalanche Center. We have developed regObs as a public tool supportin...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-42.pdf
Keywords: regobs, norwegian avalanche center, database, observations, open source, public licence policy
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Title: Collecting Snow Measurements with Ushahidi: Arpa Piemonte Experience During Winter 2013
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: R. Cremonini, A. R. Gaeta, E. Solero, R. Pispico, M. Faletto, M.C, Prola, S. Barbero
Description: Accurate and updated measurements are critical for snow stability conditions assessment and avalanche risk evaluation. Recently, Arpa Piemonte has cus...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-43.pdf
Keywords: snow measurements, smartphone app, geo-referred information
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Title: Visualizing Snow Profiles
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Matthias Gerber, Charles Fierz, Pascal Haegeli
Description: The introduction of the CAAML 5.0 Profile for IACS Snow Profiles (Haegeli et al., 2010) created the necessary foundation for facilitating the exchange...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-44.pdf
Keywords: information exchange, xml, caaml 5.0, iacs, snow profile, visualization
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Title: Avalanche Trigger Locations in Complex Terrain
Date: 2012
Authors: Zachary M. Guya, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: More winter recreationists are venturing into “extreme” terrain each year, and avalanche fatalities in that terrain are increasing. The sl...
Object ID: issw-2012-458-461.pdf
Keywords: winter recreation, spatial variability, slope
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Title: Tracking Wetting Front Adavance With Upward-Looking Ground-Penetrating Radar
Date: 2012
Authors: Lino Schmid, Christoph Mitterer, Achim Heilig, Jürg Schweizer, Olaf Eisen
Description: Percolating melt water combined with snow stratigraphy are thought to be the dominating drivers for the formation of wet-snow avalanches. It is, howev...
Object ID: issw-2012-599-602.pdf
Keywords: wet snow avalanches, snow stratigraphy, meltwater, avalanche activity
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Title: Vulnerability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Submitted to Out-of-Plane Loadings: Application to a Protective Structure Impacted by Snow Avalanches
Date: 2012
Authors: Ousset I., Bertrand D., Brun M., Limam A., Naaim M.
Description: In the global warming context, more and more people are threathen by natural hazards. This paper focuses on the physical vulnerability assessment of R...
Object ID: issw-2012-703-706.pdf
Keywords: risk analysis, reinforced concrete, avalanche simulation
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Title: Real Time Snow Slope Stability Modeling of Direct Action Avalanches
Date: 2012
Authors: Scott Havens, H.P. Marshall, Chris Covington, Bill Nicholson, Howard Conway
Description: Improved prediction of the timing of direct action avalanches that occur during storms is needed for highway forecasting operations. A SNOw Slope Stab...
Object ID: issw-2012-866-871.pdf
Keywords: direct action avalanche, avalanche observation, snowpack model, meteorological data
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