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- Title: Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring From Space: Creating a Complete Avalanche Activity Dataset for a Norwegian Forecasting Region
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Eirik Malnes
- Description: Complete and consistent avalanche activity records, critical for avalanche forecasting, are with traditional monitoring methods not achievable in an e...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.01.pdf
- Keywords: radar remote sensing, avalanche detection, sentinel-1a, change detection
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- Title: Real-Time Avalanche Detection with Long-Range, Wide-Angle Radars for Road Safety in Zermatt, Switzerland
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Lorenz Meier, Mylène F. Jacquemart, Bernhard Blattmann, Bernhard Arnold
- Description: Two notorious avalanche gullies threaten the only access road to Zermatt, Switzerland. Avalanches are released artificially by helicopter blasting whe...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.01.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche alarm system, road safety, radar, avalanche detection
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- Title: Operational Radar and Infrasound Systems for Avalanche Detection
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen, Lorenz Meier
- Description: Due to the increased mobility demands of societies, long-lasting closures of roads and railway lines are less accepted. Along traffic routes or ski re...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, racs, avalanche radar, infrasound, ida, lara, sara
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- Title: Microwave Radar Systems for Detecting Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: David G. Long, Andre Brummer, Bill Nalli
- Description: Key roads in the Western U.S. are often closed by avalanches during the winter. Fortunately, they generally occur in well-defined paths. Knowing when ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche detection, radar, remote sensing
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- Title: Towards the Automatic Detection of Avalanches in Seismic Data Using Hidden Markov Models
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Matthias Heck, Conny Hammer, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Donat Fäh
- Description: Seismic monitoring systems are well suited for the remote detection of various mass movements, including snow avalanches. While this has been known si...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O14.04.pdf
- Keywords: automatic detection, classification, seismic monitoring
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- Title: Infrasound Detection of Avalanches in Grasdalen and Indreeidsdalen, Norway
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Tore Humstad, Ørjan Søderblom, Giacomo Ulivieri, Stian Langeland, Halgeir Dahle
- Description: Infrasound technology for detection of snow avalanches has been tested in mountainous terrain in Norway over the two last winter seasons. Two valleys,...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.25.pdf
- Keywords: infrasound, avalanche detection, forecasting, ida
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- Title: Reducing Risky Behaviors: Applying Theories of Behavioral Change to Avalanche Education
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Neil S. Geisler, Karl R. Geisler
- Description: Avalanche course curriculum tends to focus on three main areas: the technical and observable underpinnings of avalanche formation and release, decisio...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.34.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, decision making, risk, behavior change
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- Title: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer
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- Title: Using Thermal Imaging to Verify Avalanche Control Results
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mark Saurer, Damian Jackson, Bill Nalli
- Description: As the population of the Salt Lake Valley and popularity of backcountry skiing in the Wasatch continues to grow, so do the logistic difficulties of co...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.02.pdf
- Keywords: thermal imaging, avalanche control, irt
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- Title: Use of Ground Based INSAR Radar to Monitor Glide Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Ingrid Skrede, Lene Kristensen, Carlo Rivolta
- Description: Ground based InSAR radars are commonly used to monitor deformations on rock slopes, using acceleration to predict the risk of failure. During the spri...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O2.04.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, insar, radar, monitoring, stavbrekkfonna
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- Title: Case Study: Natural Glide and Wet Slab Avalanche Cycle, Going-To-The-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana USA
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jake Hutchinson, Erich H. Peitzsch, Adam M. Clark
- Description: The Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) is the premier tourist attraction in Glacier National Park, Montana. The GTSR also traverses through and under 40 ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O3.02.pdf
- Keywords: glide avalanche, wet slab avalanche, forecasting, glacier national park, montana
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- Title: Rescue at Cherry Bowl an Avalanche Canada Microsite Exploring the Many Learning Opportunities From a Successful Backcountry Avalanche Rescue
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Mary Clayton
- Description: Too often, educational opportunities in avalanche safety are based in tragedy. Rescue at Cherry Bowl is a lesson from success; three backcountry skie...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.01.pdf
- Keywords: rescue training, education, awareness, avalanche canada, rescue at cherry bowl
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- Title: Avalanche Awareness at the Jackson Hole High School
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Sarah Carpenter, Trevor Deighton
- Description: Each year, more young skiers, riders, and snowmobilers are accessing the backcountry. For the past 12 years, the American Avalanche Institute has been...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.03.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, youth education, wyoming
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- Title: Teenagers in the Backcountry: a Study of Use and Education from the Perspective of High School Students
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Emery L. Rheam
- Description: Teenagers are using the backcountry increasingly more and more during the winter for a wide range of activities. When growing up in mountain communiti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O4.04.pdf
- Keywords: teenagers, avalanche education, youth education
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- Title: Risk-Based Avalanche Program Design
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Grant Statham, Brian Gould
- Description: Avalanche safety programs around the world are diverse and varied, challenged to forecast avalanche hazard and manage avalanche risk in a variety of e...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O5.01.pdf
- Keywords: risk, hazard, probability, consequence, exposure, vulnerability, education
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