About this episode

The episode features a discussion with AVSS about their drone-based Precision Avalanche Management System and its implications for avalanche control and worker safety.

Episode Summary: - A conversation with AVSS introduces PAMS, a Precision Avalanche Management System, designed to reliably drop explosives from a drone platform. - The episode explores the prior experience AVSS brings to the avalanche industry from remote drone operations in logistics and military contexts. - The conversation looks at the development process and field testing with Jasper National Park. - A glimpse at the next 12 months of testing through an early-adopter program. In this episode of The Avalanche Hour Podcast, hosts Caleb Merrill and Dom Baker sit down with the team at AVSS for a conversation about the development process of creating a drone based avalanche control system from the ground up. You will hear how this technology aims to create opportunities for greater worker safety, reliability of avalanche hazard management and the evolving list of use cases. The episode also examines how these tools could fit into existing avalanche mitigation strategies and what their growing presence signals about the future of the field. Josh from AVSS discusses the field testing process with avalanche control programs in Western Canada and the plans for an early adopter program…

People in this episode

Hosts: Caleb Merrill, Dom Baker

Guest: Josh

Topics covered

• avalanche management
• drone technology
• worker safety
• field testing
• avalanche control
• early adopter program

Keywords

• avalanche
• drone
• explosives
• safety
• testing

Sponsors

AVSS

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Precision Avalanche Management System

Places: Jasper National Park, Western Canada

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