STARTER: a statistical GIS-based model for the prediction of snow avalanche susceptibility using terrain features-application to Alta Val Badia, Italian Dolomites

The possibility to make combinations of terrain features and to assess and verify their statistical relationship with release areas of past avalanche events is the major original step made by STARTER. Linking those release areas to meteorological scenarios is an attempt to include in the analysis the combined influence of terrain features and meteorological conditions towards snowpack instability.