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4 datasets found

  • Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concrete....

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

    • ZIP
    • experiment
    • field-tests
    • field-data
    • impact-testing
    • experiments
    • mass-movements
    • field-test
    • rockfall
    • rockfall-experiments
    • 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
    • avalanche
    • hazard-mapping
    • natural-hazard
    • satellite
    • snow
  • Three-dimensional debris flow simulation tool debrisInterMixing

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Here the updated versions of debrisInterMixing are provided for download. The first OpenFoam-compatible Version 2.3.x are available as supplement to v. Boetticher, A., Turowski, J....

    Last updated: March 24, 2020

    • ZIP
    • PDF
    • debris-flow
    • interfoam
    • shallow-landslide
    • dberisintermixing
    • barrier-impact-simulation
    • natural-hazard
    • finite-volumes
    • murgang
    • hangmuren
  • 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
    • natural-hazard
    • snow
    • avalanche
    • satellite