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• Summary

 
• Structure of the project

 
• Documentation of historical glacier catastrophes

 
• Satellite data

 
• Automatic detection of glacier lakes

 
• GIS-based models for lake outbursts

 
• Hazard assessment of ice avalanches

 
• Applications in remote high mountain area (study in Peru)

 
• Publications and references

 

Dr. Andreas Kääb and Prof. Wilfried Haeberli (Dep. of Geography, Univ. of Zurich)

in cooperation with

Dr. Klaus Seidel (NPOC/Computer Vision, ETH Zurich) and Dr. Bernhard Krummenacher (CENAT, SLF Davos)