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Title: Automated Avalanche Risk Rating of Backcountry Ski Routes
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Günter Schmudlach, Jochen Köhler
Description: Avalanche accidents are often due to the fact, that many backcountry trips take place at locations with high avalanche risk at the time. A new web pla...
Object ID: ISSW16_O19.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, platform, graphical reduction method, risk rating
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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: 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: Avalanche Rescue and Mission Risk in Norway 1996-2010
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Albert Lunde, Krister Kristensen
Description: Well documented data from Norwegian avalanche rescue missions are evaluated according to risk assessment. Data have been collected from police records...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk assessment, risk management
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Title: Survival Chance Optimized Procedures in Rescue and How to Minimize Injuries During Excavation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: In companion rescue as well as in the start-up phase of organized rescue, shortage of rescue resources are very likely if multiple buried subjects / p...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-09.pdf
Keywords: avalanche triage, excavation, injuries
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Title: Transceiver Basics and Smart-Antenna-Technology
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ortovox
Description: Modern avalanche transceivers utilize three antennas (X, Y, Z). During searching, all three antennas are used. The X and the Y antenna are used to dis...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-61.pdf
Keywords: transceiver, rescue, avalanche, antenna
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Title: Partner Rescue Skills: An Organizational and Individual Assessment Over the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Winter Seasons at Big Sky Resort
Date: 2012
Authors: Jonathan Binger, Chelan Babineau-Z
Description: Avalanche hazard mitigation work is one of the more hazardous aspects of professional ski patrolling. Ski patrollers rely almost entirely on their par...
Object ID: issw-2012-783-785.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard, avalanche rescue and survival, ski patrolling
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Title: Spatial, Temporal, and Space-Time Analysis of Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Colorado and the United States, 1991 to 2011
Date: 2012
Authors: Spencer Logan, Frank Witmer
Description: An analysis of fatal avalanche accidents in the state of Colorado (CO) and the United States (US) for 20 winters from 1990-91 to 2010-11, compared tem...
Object ID: issw-2012-479-486.pdf
Keywords: accident fatality, cluster analysis, statistics
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Title: Improving the Interoperability and User-Friendliness of the French Snow Avalanche Information Systems
Date: 2010
Authors: Laure Vidaud-Barral, Jean-Marc Tacnet, Michael Deschâtres, Mylène Bonnefoy, Didier Richard
Description: Snow avalanches are rapid mass movements that put humans and material assets at risk with dramatic consequences. Risk reduction is reduced through str...
Object ID: ISSW_P-043.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, information systems, data quality, information sharing, software engineering, interoperability
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Title: Mobile Information Systems for Avalanche Topics
Date: 2009
Authors: Christoph Suter, Stephan Harvey
Description: Modern mobile phones with integrated GPS and internet access offer the possibility of exchanging data at any time and everywhere. So called location-...
Object ID: issw-2009-0391-0394.pdf
Keywords: mobile information system, avalanche education, mlearning, avalanche information
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Title: Using LIDAR (Light Distancing and Ranging) Data to More Accurately Describe Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2009
Authors: Christopher M. McCollister, Robert H. Comey
Description: Currently, 30 meter Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and 1 meter color Digital Ortho Quads (DOQ) are available for most of the United States. These read...
Object ID: issw-2009-0463-0467.pdf
Keywords: lidar, geographic information systems (gis), geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: Mapping and Classification of Potential Avalanche Sites in the Chic-Chocs Mountains, Quebec, Canada, Using Geographic Information Systems
Date: 2006
Authors: Alain Royer, Stephanie Lemieux
Description: Avalanche sites mapping and classification are tools that have been frequently used for managing avalanche risks. The use of geographic information sy...
Object ID: issw-2006-411-418.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche mapping, terrain classification, visualisation, geographic information systems (gis)
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Title: An Interdisciplinary Snow Systems Course for Undergraduates
Date: 2006
Authors: Dr. Koren Nydick, Chris Landry
Description: Despite the growing need for environmental scientists and managers to think with an interdisciplinary perspective, many undergraduate courses are dis...
Object ID: issw-2006-435.pdf
Keywords: education, snow science, winter ecology, fort lewis college, mountain studies institute, energy budgets
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Title: Methodology of Snow Avalanche Post-Event Field Investigations: Tools, Difficulties and Perspectives
Date: 2006
Authors: Jean-Marc Tacnet , Sébastien Escande, François Rapin, Roland Burnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert
Description: Avalanche post-event field investigations are usually made immediately following the event. Assessments and results often vary depending on the person...
Object ID: issw-2006-530-539.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche assessment, analytic hierarchic process, reliability, traceability, information systems
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Title: Avalanche Risk for Recreationists in Backcountry and in Off-Piste Area: Surveying Methods and Pilot Study at Davos, Switzerland
Date: 2006
Authors: Benjamin Zweifel, Adrian Raez, Thomas Stucki
Description: In the field of avalanche warning and avalanche protection, the usage of free area (nonavalanche- secured terrain) is of high importance and was hardl...
Object ID: issw-2006-733-741.pdf
Keywords: avalanche risk, avalanche warning, avalanche accident, backcountry area, off-piste area, individual risk
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