Remote sensing of snow avalanches: Recent advances, potential, and limitations

M Eckerstorfer, Y Bühler, R Frauenfelder… - Cold Regions Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Snow avalanches are the main natural hazard in snow covered mountainous areas
worldwide, frequently threatening lives and infrastructure. Avalanche research is inherently …

Snow and ice avalanches in high mountain Asia–scientific, local and indigenous knowledge

A Acharya, JF Steiner, KM Walizada… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
The cryosphere in high mountain Asia (HMA) not only sustains the livelihoods of people
residing downstream through its capacity to store water but also holds the potential for …

Automated identification of potential snow avalanche release areas based on digital elevation models

Y Bühler, S Kumar, J Veitinger… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2013 - nhess.copernicus.org
The identification of snow avalanche release areas is a very difficult task. The release
mechanism of snow avalanches depends on many different terrain, meteorological …

Automated snow avalanche release area delineation–validation of existing algorithms and proposition of a new object-based approach for large-scale hazard …

Y Bühler, D von Rickenbach, A Stoffel… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2018 - nhess.copernicus.org
Snow avalanche hazard is threatening people and infrastructure in all alpine regions with
seasonal or permanent snow cover around the globe. Co** with this hazard is a big …

Intercomparison of photogrammetric platforms for spatially continuous snow depth map**

LA Eberhard, P Sirguey, A Miller, M Marty… - The Cryosphere …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Snow depth has traditionally been estimated based on point measurements collected either
manually or at automated weather stations. Point measurements, though, do not represent …

[HTML][HTML] Glacier changes on the Nanga Parbat 1856–2020: A multi-source retrospective analysis

M Nüsser, S Schmidt - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Contemporary changes in the Himalayan cryosphere are an important concern in the global
climate change debate. In this context, the glaciers of the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) deserve …

Automated avalanche map** from SPOT 6/7 satellite imagery with deep learning: results, evaluation, potential and limitations

ED Hafner, P Barton, RC Daudt, JD Wegner… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Spatially dense and continuous information on avalanche occurrences is crucial for
numerous safety-related applications such as avalanche warning, hazard zoning, hazard …

[HTML][HTML] Map** avalanches with satellites–evaluation of performance and completeness

ED Hafner, F Techel, S Leinss, Y Bühler - The Cryosphere, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
The spatial distribution and size of avalanches are essential parameters for avalanche
warning, avalanche documentation, mitigation measure design and hazard zonation …

A large wet snow avalanche cycle in West Greenland quantified using remote sensing and in situ observations

J Abermann, M Eckerstorfer, E Malnes, BU Hansen - Natural Hazards, 2019 - Springer
On 11 April 2016 we observed high slushflow and wet snow avalanche activity at the
environmental monitoring station Kobbefjord in W-Greenland. Snow avalanches released as …

Where are the avalanches? Rapid SPOT6 satellite data acquisition to map an extreme avalanche period over the Swiss Alps

Y Bühler, ED Hafner, B Zweifel, M Zesiger… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
Accurate and timely information on avalanche occurrence is key for avalanche warning,
crisis management and avalanche documentation. Today such information is mainly …