by Susanne Wahlen | Jul 5, 2019 | Ice and snow, News |
On Tuesday night, 2 July 2019, a large, unstable section in the northern slope of Trift Glacier at Weissmies, Switzerland, broke off. Several days before, the image analysis of our deformation camera showed a significant acceleration of the affected area and indicated...
by Susanne Wahlen | Jun 7, 2019 | Ice and snow, News |
The world’s largest detection system for avalanches is being built at the Rogers Pass in Canada to improve the winter safety of the Trans-Canada Highway (media releases by Government of Canada, CBC, Revelstoke Mountaineer). Among the detection devices are four...
by Susanne Wahlen | May 28, 2019 | News |
In cooperation with Geobrugg, our CEO Lorenz Meier and Head of Customer Solutions Gian Darms visited Brazil last week. They gave presentations on automated natural hazard monitoring systems for several mining companies in the Minera Gerais region. The Swiss delegation...
by Susanne Wahlen | Apr 10, 2019 | News |
The German science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft has published a comprehensive article on our monitoring system of Bis glacier at the Swiss village Randa. The article also describes the technologies applied to monitor the glacier and to detect ice and snow avalanches...
by Susanne Wahlen | Apr 2, 2019 | News |
…a senior system engineer (80-100%), an automation engineer (80%) and an office manager (50%)! Would you like to combine work in the office and the outdoors and solve real problems? Then find out more about our open positions! Senior System Engineer (80-100%)...
by Susanne Wahlen | Feb 22, 2019 | Ice and snow, News |
On 22 February 1999 at 5 PM a gigantic powder avalanche descended near Blatten, Switzerland. The width of the so-called “ridge avalanche” was 3.5 km with a slab thickness of 3 to 8 m (P. Schwitter & L. Stoffel, ISSW 2009 in German). The avalanche...
