Automatically detecting avalanche events in passive seismic data

Proceedings - 2012 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-20

  Rubin, Marc J ^a   Camp, Tracy ^a   Herwijnen, Alec Van ^b   Schweizer, Jurg ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

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

Author keywords

automated; avalanche; detection; machine learning; seismic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLUSTER-BASED; COMBINED INFORMATIONS; DECISION STUMPS; EVENT SELECTION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MEAN CLASSIFICATION; OVERALL ACCURACIES; PROBLEM SPACE; REDUCED DATA; SEISMIC; SEISMIC DATAS; SIGNAL PREPROCESSING; SINGLE SENSOR; SLAB AVALANCHES; SNOW AVALANCHE; SPECTRAL ENERGY; SPECTRAL FLUX; SWITZERLAND; TRAINING AND TESTING; WINTER SEASONS;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); ERROR DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84873603756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2012.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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