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Title: Shoveling in the Name of Science
Date: 2010
Authors: Zack Quine, Eeva Latosuo
Description: The fitness level of a single person rescuer is the most important factor that increases an avalanche victim‟s survival. After examining 23 peop...
Object ID: ISSW_P-088.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, companion rescue, fitness, experience
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Title: Using GIS and Google Earth for the Creation of the Going-to-the-Sun Road Avalanche Atlas, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Date: 2010
Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre, Mark Dundas
Description: Snow avalanche paths are key geomorphologic features in Glacier National Park, Montana, and an important component of mountain ecosystems: they are is...
Object ID: ISSW_P-098.pdf
Keywords: google earth, geographic information systems (gis), glacier national park, montana, biodiversity, atlas
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Title: Patroller Down: Rescue, Documentation and Resulting Operational Changes
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Ferrari
Description: By the start of February 2007, the snowpack at Mt. Rose in the Sierras was atypically shallow and weak. After the first significant storm cycle of th...
Object ID: ISSW_P-099.pdf
Keywords: rescue, the chutes, atypical snow conditions, incident form
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Title: SPA - Snow Pack Analysing System
Date: 2009
Authors: Reinhard Fiel, Wolfram Sommer, Thomas Rentsch
Description: The Snow Pack Analysing System is an automatic in-situ measurement system to determine the characteristics of snow covers. Measurements of the complex...
Object ID: issw-2009-0129-0131.pdf
Keywords: snow density, snow water equivalent, liquid water content, in-situ measurement
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Title: Statistical Avalanche Run-Out Modelling Using GIS on Selected Slopes of Western Tatras National Park, Slovakia
Date: 2009
Authors: Marek Biskupič, Ivan Barka
Description: Without doubt avalanche run-out distances play a key role in landuse planning within avalanche prone areas. The Žiarska valley in Western Tatras i...
Object ID: issw-2009-0482-0487.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, geographic information systems (gis), run-out modelling, western tatras
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Title: Will A Guest Ever Be Able To Save Your Life?
Date: 2009
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: The efficiency of companion rescue with minimal training has been proven in real accidents as well as in large scale field tests where participants w...
Object ID: issw-2009-0666-0670.pdf
Keywords: companion rescue, avalanche rescue, search systems, avalanche rescue technology, rescue training
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Title: Avalanche Scenario with Double Burial the Effectiveness of Different Rescue Equipment, Specific Operational Methods and Their Benefits for Companion Rescue
Date: 2009
Authors: Hauer Othmar, Eck Markus, Schober Michael
Description: For this study a field test was carried out to determine the total time needed by independently working test persons to locate two active transmitter...
Object ID: issw-2009-0675-0680.pdf
Keywords: triple antenna beacons with marking function, beacons without marking function, three circle method, electronic probe, micro strip searching
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Title: Specialized Multiple Burial Techniques: Reality Versus Myth. The European Perspective
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Dieter Stopper, Jon Mullen
Description: The European snow safety community has often thought of complex multiple burial situations as common. An avalanche captures several skiers or mountain...
Object ID: P__8112.pdf
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Title: Multiple Burial Beacon Searches with Marking Functions
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Thomas S. Lund
Description: Locating multiple buried avalanche victims can be a difficult job for the average recreationalist. To simplify the task, modern avalanche beacons have...
Object ID: P__8103.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, transceiver, marking, multiple burial, signal overlap
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Title: A Systematic Approach to Optimize Avalanche Beacon Design for Minimum Search Time
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Rolf Matzner
Description: The time required to search a buried person using an avalanche beacon contributes significantly to the overall rescue time. This paper investigates th...
Object ID: P__8080.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, safety, multi-burial
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Title: New Definition of the Useful Range Using a Reliable, Accurate, and Reproducible Test Procedure with Practical Relevance - Running a Field Test Tracked by a DGPS
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Markus Eck, Michael Schober, Marcellus Schreilechner
Description: We have used a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) for tracking the search trajectories of a rescuer at three different orientations of the ...
Object ID: P__8242.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, useful range, dgps, field study, coupling position, search strip width
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Title: Digging Deeper: Uncovering the Real Issues in North American Multiple Burials
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Jon Mullen
Description: For avalanche educators, time is precious. When teaching avalanche rescue to recreationists, what takes priority? To determine what the crux issues ar...
Object ID: P__8201.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, transceiver, avalanche education, multiple burial, shoveling, excavation
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Title: Remote Reverse Triage in Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir, Benjamin Zweifel
Description: Remote reverse triage is an effective tool to optimize survival chances in companion and organized avalanche rescue. In the majority of cases avalanch...
Object ID: P__8263.pdf
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Title: Avalanche Survival Strategies for Different Parts of a Flowing Avalanche
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Theo Meiners, Perry Bartelt
Description: Swimming in avalanches has recently been questioned, with detractors stating that "swimming leads to dying". Since no direct scientific evidence exist...
Object ID: P__8038.pdf
Keywords: avalanche survival strategies, avalanche rescue, avalanche dynamics
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Title: Time to Change Rescue Attitudes for a New Generation
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: Today's attitudes about organized avalanche rescue-too late and too slow-are based on circumstances more then 20 years old. This generational differen...
Object ID: P__8239.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, attitudes, communication, travel, search technology, emergency care
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