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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: Supporting, Evaluating, and Planning Avalanche Control Efforts with Lidar-Derived Snow Depth Maps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jeffrey S. Deems, Ryan Evanczyk, Dominic Vellone, Ethan Greene, Tyler Weldon, David C. Finnegan, Peter J. Gadomski, Adam L. LeWinter
- Description: Recent studies have demonstrated the applicability and potential for ground-based lidar mapping to support avalanche control operations. High-resoluti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O9.02.pdf
- Keywords: lidar, spatial variability, avalanche control, infrastructure planning
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- Title: Artificial Avalanche Release: Flat Field Experiments Using a Gas Exploder
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jürg Dual, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Fixed avalanche control installations are frequently used today due to their various advantages to artificially trigger avalanches. Gas mixtures or ex...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O17.04.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, gas exploder, avalanche formation, experiments
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- Title: Design and Operation of Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) - a Best-Practice Example in the Alps
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Walter Steinkogler, Stian Langeland, Samuel Wyssen
- Description: This paper gives insights in how to design and operate Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) from the initial project planning to the operational av...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.48.pdf
- Keywords: remote avalanche control systems, risk management, design and operation
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- Title: Being Prepared for Low Frequency Major Avalanche Rescues
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Donald Bogie, Andrew L. Hobman
- Description: From a risk and search management perspective, an avalanche Search and Rescue (SAR) response contains many factors that increase the complexity and ri...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.16.pdf
- Keywords: rescue, avalanche site control, training
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- Title: I-90 Snoqualmie Pass: Review of Highway Operations During a Major Construction Project in an Active Avalanche Area
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: John Stimberis
- Description: Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass, WA is affected by numerous avalanche paths that disrupt travel and threaten the safety of travelers. The most acti...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.09.pdf
- Keywords: snow shed, avalanche fences, avalanche forecasting, avalanche control, highways
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- Title: Concept to optimize road closures due to avalanche hazard on low traffic roads in Norway
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Dag Theodor R. Andreassen, Ole-Andre Helgaas
- Description: The Norwegian road network connects remote communities to central parts of the country. These communities are often vulnerable to isolation due to ava...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P4.46.pdf
- Keywords: monitoring, warning, observation, avalanche control, hazard evaluation
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- Title: Assessing Weak Layer Failure and Changes in Snowpack Properties Due to Avalanche Control By Explosives
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Avalanche control by explosives is among the key temporary preventive measures and today fixed avalanche control installations are widely used. Hither...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-13.pdf
- Keywords: snow properties, avalanche control, explosives, weak layer failure
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- Title: Design and Construction of Snow Supporting Structures for the Milepost 151 Avalanche, Jackson, Wyoming
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Joshua T. Hewes, Rand Decker, Scott M. Merry
- Description: Reduction and management of avalanche threats to motorists on roads and highways threatened by avalanches can be accomplished by use of constructed de...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-15.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, hazard, transportation, snow structure, nepa, visual retention
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- Title: Avalanche Safety in Ski Areas – The Legal Position in Austria
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Siegfried Sauermoser, Marianne Fritz, Gebhard Walter
- Description: The avalanche safety in the area of ropeways is regulated on the basis of the Austrian
Ropeway Act 2003 (version of 2012) in the so-called “Ava...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-16.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche safety, austrian ropeway act 2003, ski areas, avalanche commission, cableway, ropeway installation
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- Title: Filets de Protection Contre les Avalanches: un Retour d’Expérience du Service RTM Pour la Définition de Consignes de Maintenance
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Rémy Martin
- Description: The RTM service is a service specialised in work in Mountain. Since the 1970s it implements and maintains snownet. A feedback on difficulties in the m...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-63.pdf
- Keywords: protection equipment against avalanches, snownet, feedback, setpoint maintenances
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- Title: Automated Terrestrial Laser Scanner Measurements of Small-Scale Snow Avalanches
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Marc S. Adams, Engelbert Gleirscher, Thomas Gigele, Reinhard Fromm
- Description: Remote sensing is a powerful and versatile tool for measuring the spatial and temporal distribution of snow. In this study, an Automated Terrestrial L...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-29.pdf
- Keywords: automated terrestrial laser scanning, snowcatcher, avalanche control
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- Title: Possibility of Increasing the Slope Distance Between Avalanche Prevention Bridges
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Hiroki Matsushita, Masaru Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
- Description: Snow bridges are installed on roadside slopes as a major measure for preventing avalanches in susceptible areas in Japan. Current methods of designing...
- Object ID: issw-2012-696-702.pdf
- Keywords: snow bridge, avalanche prevention, slope analysis
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- Title: An Explicit Nonlinear Numerical Model of Explosive Air Blast on Snow and Implications for Avalanche Control
- Date: 2010
- Authors: D.A. Miller, R.G. Tichota, E.E. Adams
- Description: Recent post explosive control avalanches and the lack of analytical methods for evaluating explosive control have motivated this study to better quant...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-007.pdf
- Keywords: numerical model, avalanche control
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- Title: State of the Explosives Industry
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Everett Clausen
- Description: This presentation will be a review of how the perception of the avalanche industry by the explosives industry has changed and how that transformation ...
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- Keywords: explosives industry, avalanche control
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