Rapid Mapping - A Federal Service for the Documentation and Management of Natural Disasters
Mathias Zesiger
Swiss Federal Office for Topography swisstopo, Switzerland
Sabine Brodhag
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Switzerland
Wolfgang Ruf
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Switzerland
Mathias Gross
Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP, National Emergency Operation Centre NEOC, Switzerland
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We manually map 18 737 avalanche outlines based on SPOT6 optical satellite imagery acquired in January 2018. This is the most complete and accurate avalanche documentation of a large avalanche period covering a big part of the Swiss Alps. This unique dataset can be applied for the validation of other remote-sensing-based avalanche-mapping procedures and for updating avalanche databases to improve hazard maps.
Christophe Lienert, Franziska Angly Bieri, Wolfgang Ruf, Mathias Gross, and Mathias Zesiger
Abstr. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 6, 140, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-140-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-140-2023, 2023
Yves Bühler, Elisabeth D. Hafner, Benjamin Zweifel, Mathias Zesiger, and Holger Heisig
The Cryosphere, 13, 3225–3238, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3225-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3225-2019, 2019
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We manually map 18 737 avalanche outlines based on SPOT6 optical satellite imagery acquired in January 2018. This is the most complete and accurate avalanche documentation of a large avalanche period covering a big part of the Swiss Alps. This unique dataset can be applied for the validation of other remote-sensing-based avalanche-mapping procedures and for updating avalanche databases to improve hazard maps.