Spatio-temporal avalanche forecasting with Support Vector Machines

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-382

  Pozdnoukhov, A ^a   Matasci, G ^b   Kanevski, M ^b   Purves, R S ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; SNOW AVALANCHE; SNOWPACK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79951539814     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-367-2011     Document Type: Article

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