Monitoring avalanche activity using a seismic sensor

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 165-176

  van Herwijnen, A ^a,b   Schweizer, J ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche forecasting; Seismic monitoring; Snow avalanche

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE FORECASTING; DETECTION METHODS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; IN-LINE; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC METHODS; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMIC SENSOR; SLAB AVALANCHES; SNOW AVALANCHE; SPECTROGRAMS;

CAMERAS; METEOROLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SENSORS;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES);

DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOPHONE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMOLOGY; SNOW AVALANCHE;

EID: 84859151629     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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