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- Title: Herding Cats: Increasing Public Avalanche Awareness at Copper Mountain Resort
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Reed B. Ryan, Max J. Tyler
- Description: During the 2015-2016 season, Copper Mountain Resort (CMR), in Summit County, Colorado, introduced a program encouraging guests to wear avalanche beaco...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.42.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon, inbounds avalanche, avalanche education, avalanche awareness
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- Title: Avalanche Beacon Parks: Focus on Skill Development and Team Coordination
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Audrey Desjardins, Saul Greenberg, Ron Wakkary, Jeff Hambelton
- Description: We observe and describe the ways backcountry recreationists use a wireless avalanche beacon training park located on a ski hill. From those observatio...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.23.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon training park, team coordination, avalanche companion rescue, beacon, transceiver
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- Title: Bayes’ Beacon: Avalanche Prediction, Competence, and Evidence for Competence, Modelling the Effect of Competent and Incompetent Predictions of Highly Improbable Events
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Theoni Photopoulou
- Description: In this paper, we will discuss how competence can affect a person’s ability to avoid avalanches and present a way of modelling such competence....
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-04.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making in avalanche-terrain, modelling competence, bayes’ theorem
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- Title: Analysis of State-of-the-Art Approaches for “Marking†During Multiburial Beacon Search Versus the Aspects of Fully Maintaining the EN300718 Standard
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Michael Schober, Markus Eck, Michael Rust
- Description: Over the recent years most of the state-of-the-art beacons now support the search for multiple burials using signal analysis strategies. Due to this, ...
- Object ID: issw-2012-214-223.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon, transmitting range, avalanche safety
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- Title: Simple and Reliable Methodology to Compare Various Avalanche Beacons Taking into Account the Useful Range, Multiple Burial, and the Strength of the Third Antenna
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Marcellus Schreilechner, Markus Eck, Michael Schober
- Description: In the spring of 2010, all commercially available avalanche beacons were compared in terms of their useful range, the quality of the indication of dir...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-001.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacons, dgps
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- Title: Fighting the Worst Case – Avoiding Loss of Transmitting Range and Directional Irritations for Perpendicular Buried Transmitting Beacons
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Franz J. Kroell, Rolf Matzner
- Description: Digital distance indication, direction indication, signal splitting including marking function and precise pinpointing are the most significant improv...
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- Keywords: transmitting range, avalanche transceiver, directional irritations
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- Title: Updating and Expansion of a Field Study to Optimize the Search Strip Width of Avalanche Beacons
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Marcellus Schreilechner, Markus Eck, Michael Schober
- Description: The range of an avalanche beacon depends on certain technical characteristics of the device and the position of the transmitter (or victim) relative t...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0681-0685.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon, useful range, dgps, search strip width
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- Title: On the Effects of Receiver Bandwidth on the Performance of Avalanche Beacons
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Felix Meier, Andreas Ehrensperger
- Description: Contrary to transmitter frequency tolerance, the receiver bandwidth is not standardized for avalanche beacons. Some transmitters even transmit outside...
- Object ID: issw-2006-562-565.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacons, receiver bandwidth, frequency tolerance, standards
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- Title: Multiple Beacon Searching for the Masses: A Standardized Approach for Avalanche Educators
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Steve Christie
- Description: Teaching complex multiple burial scenarios for single searchers in recreational avalanche courses needs to be standardized. Every avalanche beacon on ...
- Object ID: issw-2006-607-610.pdf
- Keywords: multiple burials, avalanche educators, three circle method, primary search, standardized approach
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- Title: Transceiver Training Parks: Shortening the Beacon Learning Curve
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Steve Christie
- Description: “Practice. Practice. Practice.†Avalanche educators are often heard chanting this mantra to students learning to use avalanche transceiver...
- Object ID: issw-2004-351-354.pdf
- Keywords: beacon basin, preparation time, manual preparation time, practice search hours
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- Title: Obsolescence and Analog Avalanche Transceivers: Ensuring Downward Compatibility
- Date: 2004
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly, John Hereford
- Description: Between the new international standards adopted in 2001 and the aging of the world's fleet of analog avalanche transceivers, the time is approaching w...
- Object ID: issw-2004-355-359.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche transceivers, frequency drift, receiver bandwidth, downward compatibility
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- Title: On the Practical Use of Avalanche Beacons - The Austrian Transceiver Test 2001
- Date: 2002
- Authors: P. Holler, F. Gibler
- Description: The development of new avalanche beacons in the last years was the motive to initiate a test of electronic transceivers by the Austrian Institute for ...
- Object ID: issw-2002-256-260.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche rescue, avalanche beacons
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- Title: Avalanche Rescue Beacon Testing
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer, George Krusi
- Description: The performance of four types of avalanche rescue beacons was tested during the winter 2001 in Switzerland. During the first field test the search tim...
- Object ID: issw-2002-456-460.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche rescue
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- Title: Determining the Width of a Search Strip for Avalanche Beacons
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Felix Meier
- Description: The width of the coarse search strip that is applied when scanning an avalanche is a
major factor influencing the time to locate buried victims. Wide...
- Object ID: issw-2000-345-350.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacons, search strip, field tests
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- Title: Digital Transceiving Systems: The Next Generation of Avalanche Beacons
- Date: 1998
- Authors: Bruce Edgerly, John Hereford
- Description: With the application of digital technology to avalanche transceivers in 1998, the snow safety industry has entered a new era. Forces within the growin...
- Object ID: issw-1998-120-127.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche rescue, snow slides
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