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Paper  GIS Applications at the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research
Track: Ski/Avalanche
Author(s): Andreas Stoffel, Bernhard Brabec, Urs Stoeckli

The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research is responsible for avalanche warning in Switzerland since 1936. Starting in the early 1990s, the SLF has developed a wide variety of GIS-based tools to support avalanche warners. These tools are used for visualizing measurements from manual and automatic networks, constructing maps of the current avalanche hazard, or compiling maps of avalanche accidents and damages. The paper will give an overview of these applications and show how GIS is coupled to relational databases (Oracle) and statistical packages (S-Plus).

Andreas Stoffel
Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF)
SLF
Flüelastr. 11
Davos-Dorf, Switzerland CH-7260
Switzerland

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E-mail: stoffel@slf.ch