by Samuel Bohnenblust | Feb 1, 2017
Avalanche alarm system Rigopiano, Italy Challenge On the afternoon of January 18, 2017 an avalanche occurred in the Gran Sasso mountains close to Rigopiano, province of Pescara in southern Italy’s Abruzzo region. The avalanche hit the hotel Rigopiano with 40...
by Samuel Bohnenblust | Jul 19, 2016
People detection system Zermatt Challenge In many ski resorts, preventive avalanche triggering from remotely controlled blasting systems are common practice. In each case, it must be ensured that no-one is present near the blasting or in the path of the avalanche. At...
by Samuel Bohnenblust | Apr 5, 2016
Eiger Glacier monitoring Challenge Every year, roughly one million tourists take the cogwheel railway up to Jungfraujoch to admire the famed summits of Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. In fall 2015, ETH’s Laboratory for Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology detected...
by Samuel Bohnenblust | Feb 23, 2016
Zermatt Avalanche Radar Challenge The only road that leads to Zermatt, one of Switzerland’s most renowned resorts, home to about 6000 people and reaching 2 Mio. yearly overnight stays, is threatened by the two infamous avalanche gullies Lüegelti and...
by Samuel Bohnenblust | Feb 23, 2016
Digital protection net Ovella Challenge The new river power plant currently under construction between the Austrian and the Swiss border in the Lower Engadin Valley is the largest new power plant being built in the Alps in recent years...
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