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Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Diana Saly, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Doug Richmond
Description: On January 14, 2016 an avalanche occurred on the Football Field of Saddle Peak in Southwest Montana. Saddle Peak is a backcountry slope, located immed...
Object ID: ISSW16_O8.03.pdf
Keywords: time-lapse photography, backcountry, case study, terrain use
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Title: Spatio-temporal Snow Depth Estimates with Time-Lapse Photography
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Reinhard Fromm, Marc S. Adams
Description: Applications using data collected with time-lapse photography provide estimates of snow glide intensities or the spatio-temporal extent of the snow co...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.27.pdf
Keywords: time series, webcam imagery, sun and moon shadow, spatio-temporal interpolation
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Title: Use of Time-Lapse Camera in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) to Monitor Known Release Areas for Glide Avalanches in Norway
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Julie E. Bjørlien, Njål Farestveit, Jens Tveit
Description: Glide avalanches represent one of the major avalanche problems for the Norwegian Public Road Administration in Western Norway and are notoriously diff...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.35.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, time-lapse photography
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Title: Bringing the Near Infrared Light to Practice
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Micah Johnson, Jacob Taubenheim, Drew M. Eldred, Ryan Stevenson
Description: The infrared light spectrum has proven to be an area with great potential for snow science. Most of the work performed to date has been to understand ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.41.pdf
Keywords: nir, probe, faceting
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Title: Using Time-Lapse Photography in Avalanche Research
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Nicole Berthod, Ron Simenhois, Christoph Mitterer
Description: To improve our understanding of avalanche release processes, more accurate avalanche activity data are required. Usually, data on avalanche occurrence...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-16.pdf
Keywords: time-lapse photography, image processing, avalanche activity, glide-snow avalanche
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Title: Linking Snow Distribution and Forest Canopy Characteristics by Way of Hemispherical Photography
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jiří Roubínek, David Moeser, Jiří Pavlásek, Tobias Jonas
Description: Snow accumulation and ablation processes are strongly influenced by forest canopy. Larger variability of snow depths and snow depletion rates are fou...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-26.pdf
Keywords: snow, canopy, forest, hemispherical photography, light detection and ranging (lidar)
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Title: Automated Detection and Monitoring of Glide-Snow Events Using Satellite Based Optical Remote Sensing and Terrestrial Photography
Date: 2012
Authors: Sebastian Feick, Christoph Mitterer, Lisa Dreier, Stephan Harvey, Jürg Schweizer
Description: On steep slopes the full snowpack can glide on the ground, tension cracks may open and eventually the slope fails as full-depth avalanche (glide-snow ...
Object ID: issw-2012-603-609.pdf
Keywords: glide avalanches, soil-snow interface, time lapse camera
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Title: Infrared Imagery Visual Aids for Snow Science Education
Date: 2012
Authors: Paul Brusseau, Eeva Latosuo
Description: Thermography or infrared imaging, has emerged as a method by which to study snow. Two independent articles were presented at ISSW 2010 as to its suita...
Object ID: issw-2012-786-787.pdf
Keywords: infrared imaging, thermography, visual aid, snow
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Title: Time-Lapse Photography as an Approach to Understanding Glide Avalanche Activity
Date: 2012
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Erich H. Peitzsch, Daniel B. Fagre
Description: Avalanches resulting from glide cracks are notoriously difficult to forecast, but are a recurring problem for numerous avalanche forecasting programs...
Object ID: issw-2012-872-877.pdf
Keywords: glide crack activity, time lapse camera, going to the sun road, meteorology
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Title: Monitoring Glide Avalanches Using Time-Lapse Photography
Date: 2012
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Ron Simenhois
Description: Glide avalanches can present a significant hazard to people and property in snowy climates. These often destructive avalanches are difficult to foreca...
Object ID: issw-2012-899-903.pdf
Keywords: glide avalaches, time-lapse photography, start zones, switzerland
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Title: Using Near Infrared Photography to Link Spatial Patterns in Stratigraphy with Stability
Date: 2010
Authors: Edward Bair
Description: A majority of avalanche research has focused on persistent layers. In comparison, we know very little about non-persistent weak layers despite their p...
Object ID: ISSW_P-008.pdf
Keywords: near infrared photography, spatial patterns, stratigraphy, stability
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Title: Near Infrared Photography to Quantify Temporal Changes in Melt-Freeze Crusts
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Smith, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Objective quantification of snowpack stratigraphy is a difficult task, especially when multiple observers may be tracking changes over time. Propertie...
Object ID: ISSW_P-013.pdf
Keywords: specific surface area, crust evolution, near-infrared photography, snowpack stratigraphy
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Title: Snow Micro Penetrometer and Near Infrared Photography for Grain Type Classification
Date: 2010
Authors: Scott Havens, Hans-Peter Marshall, Nick Steiner, Marco Tedesco
Description: Avalanche formation and remote sensing of snow water equivalent are dependent on snow stratigraphy and grain type. Time-intensive manual snow pit prof...
Object ID: ISSW_P-029.pdf
Keywords: snow micro penetrometer, near infrared photography, grain classification
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Title: Evidence of Liquid Water Flow Through Snow From Thick-Section Photography
Date: 1988
Authors: Bruce J. McGurk, Richard C. Kattelmann
Description: In combination with rain or melt intensity, the snowpack's physical characteristics control the travel of rain and meltwater through the snowpack. Fac...
Object ID: issw-1988-137-140.pdf
Keywords: snowpack, water, photography, snow temperature, crusts, density, layers
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Title: The Use of Time Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Activity and Snow Behaviour
Date: 1984
Authors: H.J. McPherson, F. de Scally, J.S. Gardner
Description: The development and use of a time lapse camera system to continuously monitor avalanche activity on two paths in Kananaskis Country Alberta is describ...
Object ID: ISSW-1984-167-171.pdf
Keywords: time lapse camera, wet snow, dry snow, slab avalanche
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