Where are the avalanches? Rapid SPOT6 satellite data acquisition to map an extreme avalanche period over the Swiss Alps

Bühler, Yves; Hafner, Elisabeth D.; Zweifel, Benjamin; Zesiger, Mathias; Heisig, Holger

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3225-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3225-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3225-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Research article

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04 Dec 2019

Research article |

| 04 Dec 2019

Where are the avalanches? Rapid SPOT6 satellite data acquisition to map an extreme avalanche period over the Swiss Alps

Yves Bühler, Elisabeth D. Hafner, Benjamin Zweifel, Mathias Zesiger, and Holger Heisig

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Final revised paper (published on 04 Dec 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 27 Jun 2019)

Interactive discussion

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Highest magnitude avalanche cycle ever recorded', Markus Eckerstorfer, 24 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Answers to Markus Eckerstorfer (Reviewer #1)', Yves Bühler, 02 Aug 2019
RC2: 'Monitoring avalanche activity using SPOT6/7', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Answers to Reviewer #2', Yves Bühler, 13 Aug 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (26 Aug 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Yves Bühler on behalf of the Authors (24 Sep 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (05 Oct 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

RR by Markus Eckerstorfer (18 Oct 2019)

ED: Publish as is (24 Oct 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Yves Bühler on behalf of the Authors (29 Oct 2019) Manuscript

Short summary

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.