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Title: Infrasound Detection of Avalanches, A New Approach on Managing Avalanche Risks
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Arnold Kogelnig, Giacomo Ulivieri, Emanule Marchetti, Samuel Wyssen
Description: The Austrian state road Silvretta Straße B188 is located in the avalanche-exposed Paznaun Valley. During the winter this road is an important tran...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-58.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, radar, detection, artificial avalanche release
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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: 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: Risk Appraisal and Decision Making in Front of Avalanche Risk: A Pilot Study With Backcountry Skiers
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Andres Chamarro, Gloria Marti, Tatiana Rovira, Francesc Carola, Jordi Fernández-Castro
Description: Studies and knowledge of human factor in avalanche fatalities are scarce or even null in the study area. Consequently, research into how people evalua...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-30.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk appraisal, decision-making
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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: 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: 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: Avalanche Analysis and Management in the Ski Resort Rosa Khutor Regarding the 2014 Sochi Olympics Games
Date: 2012
Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Stefan Margreth, Leonid Andreev, Alexander Boyko, Jean-Luc Vallier
Description: The 2014 winter Olympics games will take place in Russia near Sochi in the Caucasus Mountains. Several sites have been retained there: both close to ...
Object ID: issw-2012-134-141.pdf
Keywords: olympics games, avalanche study, avalanche management
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Title: Evaluation & Mitigation of Icefall Hazards for Civil Engineering Works
Date: 2012
Authors: David J. Scarpato, Martin J. Woodard
Description: The implications of ice build-up on surface rock excavations can prove to be costly over the design lifetime of a slope. In areas subject to significa...
Object ID: issw-2012-300-306.pdf
Keywords: rock face, ice engineering, harzard
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Title: A CBA of Artificial Avalanche Release Devices in Ski Resort: Monterosaski (AO – Italy) Case Study
Date: 2012
Authors: B. Frigo, M. Barbero, V. de Biagi
Description: The CBA is a procedure directly linked with a risk analysis and it supports risk-managers to choose the preventive technology to be implemented. To st...
Object ID: issw-2012-662-665.pdf
Keywords: gaz-ex, daisybell, explosives, economic index
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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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