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12 datasets found

  • Validating and improving the critical crack length in SNOWPACK

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    To validate the critical crack length as implemented in the snow cover model SNOWPACK, PST experiments were conducted for three winter seasons (2015-2017) at two field site above...

    Last updated: October 29, 2020

    • ZIP
    • TXT
    • snow-stability-evaluation
    • avalanche-forecast
    • avalanche
    • snowpack
    • snow
  • Field observations of snow instabilities

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes 589 snow profile observations including a rutschblock test, observations of signs of instability and an assessment of the local avalanche danger level,...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

    • PDF
    • CSV
    • danger-level
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-danger
    • avalanche-forecasting
    • snow-instability
  • Data reliability study: avalanche size estimates and outlines

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the data used and collected to investigate the reliability of avalanche size estimates and avalanche outlines (see related publications). Namely this is

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    Last updated: September 1, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-mapping
    • avalanche-size-estimation
    • remote-sensing
    • reliability
  • Snow Depth Mapping

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The available datasets are snow depth maps with a spatial resolution of 2m generated from image matching of ADS 80/100 data. Image acquisition took place at peak of winter (time...

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • TIFF
    • PDF
    • snow-water-equivalent
    • dsm
    • avalanche
    • snow-depth
    • snow-hydrology
    • aerial-imagery
    • image-matching
  • Automatic Classification of Avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the classification and localization results obtained during the automatic classification of avalanches during the winter season 2017.

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche
    • seismic
    • machine-learning
    • monitoring
    • localization
  • Glide-snow avalanche activity on Dorfberg, Davos, Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset includes the processed data of the glide-snow avalanche activity and dynamics on Dorfberg (Davos, Switzerland) covering seasons 2008/09 to 2021/22. This dataset was...

    Last updated: April 17, 2023

    • SERVICE
    • avalanche-activity
    • glide-snow-avalanche
    • avalanche
    • time-lapse-photography
    • snowpack-simulation
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 24 January 2018

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 18'737 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 24 January 2018. The outlines have different attributes described in the data example key...

    Last updated: April 20, 2023

    • SHP
    • hazard-mapping
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • satellite
    • natural-hazard
  • SPOT6 Avalanche outlines 16 January 2019

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Outlines of 6'041 avalanches mapped from SPOT6 satellite data over the Swiss Alps on 16 January 2019. The dataset was acquired following a period with very high avalanche danger....

    Last updated: May 12, 2023

    • SHP
    • satellite
    • avalanche
    • snow
    • natural-hazard
    • hazard-mapping
  • Simulated avalanche problem types and seismic avalanche activity around Weissfluhjoch

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Avalanche problem types were derived from snow cover simulations with the models Crocus and SNOWPACK at the Weissfluhjoch study plot, Davos, CH. The data include annual frequencies...

    Last updated: December 14, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • snowpack
    • avalanche-activity
    • avalanche-danger
    • snow-instability
    • avalanche-problem-type
    • crocus
    • avalanche
    • weissfluhjoch
    • snow-cover-modeling
    • snow
  • Satellite avalanche mapping validation data

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Validation points, validation area, ground truth coverage, SPOT 6 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-1 avalanche outlines, Sentinel-2 avalanche outlines, Davos avalanche mapping...

    Last updated: September 4, 2023

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • avalanche-hazard-mapping
    • avalanche
    • validation
    • satellite
  • Data-set for prediction of natural dry-snow avalanche activity and avalanche size using physics-based snowpack simulations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The data set contained in this repository was used in the analysis by Mayer et al. (2023): Mayer, S. I., Techel, F., Schweizer, J., and van Herwijnen, A.: Prediction of natural...

    Last updated: August 2, 2023

    • XLS
    • snowpack-model
    • machine-learning
    • avalanche
    • avalanche-size
    • natural-avalanches
  • Automated Avalanche Release Area (PRA) Delineation Davos

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the output and reference data published in the paper "Automated snow avalanche release area delineation - validation of existing algorithms and proposition of...

    Last updated: October 27, 2021

    • ZIP
    • snow
    • ramms
    • hazard-mapping
    • avalanche
    • hazard-indication-mapping
    • release