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ICA CMC Workshop Banff 2014 Objectives Avalanche Warning Center websites www.avalanches.org Geo-Communicating Avalanche Relevant www.avalanche.org Information EAWS SnoProfiler www.avalanche.ca www.avalanche.net.nz


  1. ICA CMC Workshop Banff 2014 Objectives  Avalanche Warning Center websites  www.avalanches.org Geo-Communicating Avalanche Relevant  www.avalanche.org Information – EAWS SnoProfiler  www.avalanche.ca  www.avalanche.net.nz Department of Geography and  communicate and visualize avalanche relevant Regional Research information in a spatial, temporal and thematic content Karel Kriz, Matthias Grünwald 1

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  3. Snow Profiles Snow Profile Structure  Essential for the interpretation and analysis of  Diagrams of hardness, stability and temperature snow cover in mountainous areas of the snow pack  Serve as an assessment tool for the prediction of  Stacked bar charts of snow layers, in potential avalanche hazards combination with a graph of the temperature  Analog/online processing of snow profiles  Similar across avalanche warning services, however no standardized representation  capture, draw and publish surveyed data.  Rules for representation based on the  Data comprises highly topical content, which conventions of CAAML (Canadian Avalanche needs to reach users quickly Association Markup Language) 3

  4. SnoProfiler SnoProfiler  Free accessible online application for processing  Enables users to enter qualitative as well as of snow profiles quantitative information, surveyed in the field  Goal to communicate and visualize avalanche  Geo-tagged data stored in a DB and reproduced relevant information to experts as well as to the automatically as vector (PDF) and raster images general public with a strong cartographic spatial focus  Snow layer height, temperature and meta-data  Cooperation between Avalanche Warning  Snow pack hardness and height drawn on the x- Center of Tyrol and the University of Vienna and y-axis of the chart SnoProfiler  Additional information like grain shape and size, moistness or rivets  Air temperature and temperature inside the snow pack  Information on potential snow pack stability  Meta-data  user data, spatial, regional and temporal data, information about the weather conditions and user-comments 4

  5. Challenge and Outlook Conclusion  Content relevant presentation of abundant  Development of a framework that can focus on available information how users interact with the system in an  Communication within a geographical context efficient and sustainable way in order to satisfy  Exclusion of non-relevant information their needs and support avalanche awareness  Esthetically pleasing  Flexibility, scalability and reliability  Legend with standardized symbolization  Multi-lingual capability  Knowledge requirements - user education www.avalanches.org/snoprofiler ICA CMC Workshop Banff 2014 Geo-Communicating Avalanche Relevant Information – EAWS SnoProfiler Department of Geography and Regional Research Karel Kriz, Matthias Grünwald 5

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