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Avalanche Risk Property Dataset (ARPD)

1. Introduction

The Avalanche Risk Property Dataset (ARPD) is a generic dataset, that powers avalanche risk calculations. The dataset consists of two OGR compliant point vector datasets. The first dataset contains information about avalanche accident points (failure data). The second dataset contains information about travel points of the back-country skier community (success data). Each point of both datasets provides a geographic location and more then 40 properties. The properties were sampled from the terrain and/or the avalanche forecast. Both datasets refer to Switzerland. The purpose of the data set is to induce knowledge about avalanche risk.

Tecnical documentation of the Avalanche Risk Property Dataset (ARPD) as PDF

2. License restrictions

Ownership of ARPD

  1. Skitourenguru is the data owner of ARPD.
  2. ARPD relies partly on other data, that may have other data owners (Details see tecnical documentation).

Usage Conditions

  1. Usage of ARPD is only allowed with the consent of Skitourenguru and in cooperation with Skitourenguru.
  2. ARPD may only be passed on with the explicit consent of Skitourenguru.
  3. The publication of knowledge derived from ARPD is only allowed in cooperation with Skitourenguru.
  4. Further reglementations apply to the access to the geographical location of the data points. Take note that geographic locations are not required for the evaluation of the point properties.

3. Proposals

Do you want to derive knowledge from the ARPD? Send a proposal to Skitouranguru (E-Mail under Impressum). Take into account, that your proposal must contribute to the avalanche accident prevention of the backcountry skier comunity.

4. Download

For privacy reasons this version doesn't contain x/y coordinates in the dataset. The password for the zip file is the name of the project (first letter is upper case).