The Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) is a program within the Colorado Department of Natural Resources that provides avalanche information, education, and promotes research. They monitor weather, snow cover, and avalanche conditions in the Colorado mountains and provide twice-daily information to the public. The CAIC partners with the Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the Friends of the CAIC and utilizes weather stations and satellite imagery to improve forecasting. Their work supports highway safety and backcountry recreation by providing critical data for avalanche prediction.
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The Colorado Avalanche Information Center is testing satellite optical imagery to detect and build a seasonal and year-over-year library of avalanche activity.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center assesses that optical satellite imagery can identify avalanches from the March 2019 cycle with about 90% confidence by detecting vegetation destruction or decaying vegetation signatures.
ESA provided funding in 2018 for a test of the NORCE Sentinel-1 avalanche detection method in Colorado in partnership with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center used optical satellite imagery to review the March 2019 once-in-a-century avalanche cycle that impacted Interstate 70 and multiple avalanche advisory zones.