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Title: Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Assess Avalanche Hazards for New Road Corridors in Alaska
Date: 2006
Authors: Douglas D. Scott
Description: As part of HDR’s Chignik Connectors Project (a road system connecting the three communities of Chignik), assessment and mapping of potential av...
Object ID: issw-2006-465-467.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard assessment, alaska, transportation, geographic information systems (gis), terrain modeling, and remote sensing
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Title: Holistic Geographical Visualization of Spatial Data with Applications in Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2006
Authors: Phoebe B. McNeally, Harvey J. Miller
Description: Avalanche forecasters face ever increasing pressure to make more informed decisions and accurate predictions. Decisions often are made very quickly a...
Object ID: issw-2006-478-482.pdf
Keywords: geographic visualization, avalanche forecasting, spatial decision support system
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Title: Rewarming Mild Hypothermia After Avalanche Burial
Date: 2006
Authors: Colin K. Grissom, Chris H. Harmston, John C. McAlpine, Martin I. Radwin, Brad Ellington, Ellie Hirshberg
Description: Purpose: To determine if mildly hypothermic avalanche burial victims can be rewarmed in the field we measured esophageal core body temperature (Tes) d...
Object ID: issw-2006-513-521.pdf
Keywords: avalanche burial, avalanche rescue, hypothermia, afterdrop
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Title: Strategic Shoveling: The Next Frontier in Companion Rescue
Date: 2006
Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Dale Atkins
Description: With the widespread use of digital avalanche transceiver technology, search times for companion rescue have decreased significantly. Dedicated transce...
Object ID: issw-2006-522-529.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, companion rescue, shovel, probe, transceiver, beacon
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Title: Probing for Avalanche Victims Revisited
Date: 2006
Authors: Henry Ballard, Dale Atkins, Lin Ballard
Description: A poster presentation that builds upon the results of the Probing for Avalanche Victims (ISSW 2004). This poster explores the common errors of probe ...
Object ID: issw-2006-579-583.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, probing, pod, probe line, probe
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Title: Case Report: Avalanche Accidents for Recreational Users 2005-6 Winter in Japan
Date: 2006
Authors: Azusa Degawa , Shinji Ikeda, Yukinori Saotome
Description: An average number of people who killed by avalanches each year in Japan is approximately ten. This season, however, we had more than ten people kille...
Object ID: issw-2006-618-623.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche rescue and survival
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Title: Creating or Morphing Avalanche Rescue Plans in Accordance with the Incident Command System
Date: 2004
Authors: Michael Ferrara
Description: Most avalanche rescue plans were developed before 1990. Since that time the Incident Command System has become the standard working model for unified...
Object ID: issw-2004-370.pdf
Keywords: incident command system, rescue, incident
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Title: Developing a GIS Avalanche Forecasting Model Using Real-Time Weather Telemetry Information for the South Side of MT. Hood
Date: 2004
Authors: Logan Cookler, Beth Orton
Description: Recently, the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) has been applied in the field of avalanche forecasting. These approaches have mainly used hi...
Object ID: issw-2004-145-152.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, geographic information systems (gis), geographic visualization
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Title: Probing for Avalanche Victims
Date: 2004
Authors: Henry Ballard, Dale Atkins, Lin Ballard
Description: Experience from avalanche rescues and rescue drills reveals that often the buried victim is not found on the first or even second pass of an organized...
Object ID: issw-2004-343-348.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, probing, pod, probelines, probe
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Title: Scent Movement in Avalanche Debris: A Dog Handler’s Perspective
Date: 2004
Authors: Paul A. Brusseau
Description: Avalanche search dogs are trained to locate human scent rising from avalanche debris. Handlers must understand how atmospheric conditions affect scent...
Object ID: issw-2004-349-350.pdf
Keywords: heat energy, rescue dogs, victims, scent
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Title: ICAR and its Importance in Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2004
Authors: Hans-Jürg Etter, Roland Meister, Dale Atkins
Description: The International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR, http://www.icar-cisa.org/) was founded 1948 by influential representatives of the alpine rescue ...
Object ID: issw-2004-360-369.pdf
Keywords: mountaineering accidents, mountain rescue, prevention, emergency systems, avalanche accident trends
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Title: An Analysis on the Efficiency of Avalanche Victim Search and its Contributing Factors
Date: 2004
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Rob Whelan, John R. Bezzola
Description: A standardised avalanche rescue scenario with four buried victims representing one multiple burial problem with three victims in close proximity and ...
Object ID: issw-2004-371.pdf
Keywords: burials, victims, avalanche, rescue
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Title: A National Standard: Certification of Avalanche Search and Rescue Dog Teams, The Canadian Perspective
Date: 2004
Authors: Anton Horvath, Kyle Hale
Description: Search and rescue in Canada is the responsibility of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. However operational needs of the RCMP and geographic challeng...
Object ID: issw-2004-382.pdf
Keywords: rescue dogs, avalanche rescue
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Title: Avalanche Victim Search by Ground Penetrating Radar
Date: 2004
Authors: Christian Jaedicke
Description: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems are used in many applications of snow and ice research. The information from the GPR is used to identify and in...
Object ID: issw-2004-383-388.pdf
Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), snow avalanches, search and rescue
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Title: Ground Penetrating Radar Location of Buried Avalanche Victims
Date: 2004
Authors: Justin Modroo , Gary R. Olhoeft
Description: The best way to survive being buried alive in an avalanche is with the use of requisite signal Iocator tools such as a personal transceiver or a RECCO...
Object ID: issw-2004-399-408.pdf
Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), rescue, avalanche, imaging, location, recovery
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