Create operational efficiencies, quickly document and review weather and avalanche data with effortless forms and comprehensive visualizations. SnowObs maximizes time spent on tasks you prioritize most, such as making critical decisions and collecting field data.
Improve your forecasting routine
Save time by being in one app, with all your weather, monitoring and forecast data. Stay current on changing avalanche conditions.
SnowObs drives innovation
A complete, integrated platform to help efficiently run your forecasting program.
Creating Operational Efficiencies
Hazard forecast
Utilize the Conceptual Model for Avalanche Hazard (CMAH) to create an avalanche hazard forecast.
Weather Observations
Standardize, automate and visualize current and historical weather with insightful reports and maps.
Avalanche Data
Enhance avalanche hazard evaluation through avalanche observations and monitoring.
Enhance Communication
The SnowObs platform is designed to share data within your operation. Remote access allows the team communication conditions with ease despite their location.
Share Data
Easily share snow and avalanche observations in real time with other organizations
Our Pricing
Find your perfect fit with 3 different tier levels.
Basic tier
$1500 / year
Who it’s for: Small avalanche operations. Best for guides, educators or small ski areas that need robust digital documentation for their users.
Features you’ll love:
- Daily weather observations
- Weather station tracking and visualization
- Avalanche atlas and observations
- Map based visualizations
- Avalanche hazard forecast
- Simple reporting, single model at a time
- Limited support
- Sharing with other organizations within SnowObs
- PDF report exporting
Advanced tier
$2500 / year
Who it’s for: Larger avalanche operations. Best for industrial avalanche forecast programs, highways and large ski areas needing more functionality.
Everything included in Basic Tier plus:
- More in-depth data input and visualizations
- Advanced support
- Drive new feature development
- Coming soon:
- API access for third parties
- Advanced reporting, multi model
- Sharing with integrations
- Notifications for custom weather station rules
- Custom basemaps
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Who it’s for: Multiple avalanche operations. Best for programs with multiple forecast areas, wanting to manage and coordinate across teams.
Advanced level features for each team plus:
- Organization with multiple team accounts
- Manage all teams, users and data
- Standardize forms across organizations
Add-on Modules
Mountain Weather API
- Add your own weather stations
- Control the data management
- Integrates into all-weather aspects of SnowObs
- Either provide a data file or use our Loggernet server
Avalanche Monitoring System
- See avalanche events and real-time maps within SnowObs
- Link to our monitoring system
ESRI integration - coming soon!
- Allow access to SnowObs data in an ESRI environment
- Make data layers from SnowObs available to everyone in an ESRI environment
We are here to help
Addressing some of the common concerns
We want to hear about how SnowObs can be improved! Most of the features in SnowObs are requested by users who get to help in the development process to make sure it satisfies their needs.
Yes! While changing your organization’s routines can be difficult, SnowObs is aimed to be intuitive and efficient to use. SnowObs will not bog you down with lengthy or difficult forms, making data entry tedious.
How much is an extra 30 minutes of your morning worth? The cost helps to ensure that we are continually improving SnowObs with new features based and the tiered price structure aims to give access to all organizations.
Every organization is different and we want your organization to have the best program, even if it’s not with SnowObs. If you do decide to switch, we’ll help with importing the data and getting SnowObs setup until you’re satisfied.
Switching platforms to perform different tasks is taxing. SnowObs aims to provide a single platform to access weather, snowpack and avalanche data. Integrations with our Avalanche Monitoring System and Mountain Weather API, provides you access to all your data in one spot. Future improvements will bring integrations with other platforms like ESRI to allow better data sharing across the organization.
Create Avalanche Hazard Forecasts
Hazard Forcasting
Building on our work with the US National Avalanche Center and their Avalanche Forecast Platform, we have created a more efficient and improved hazard forecast for your organization.
Standardize | Automate | Visualize
Weather Observations
Quickly visualize current and historical weather across your forecast zones with insightful reports and maps. Bring weather data automatically into forms to quickly assess avalanche hazards.
Observations In One Map
Avalanche Data Exploration
The avalanche atlas is a critical part of any avalanche forecasting program. Visualize avalanche observations and real time avalanche monitoring on an interactive 3D map. Aggregate avalanche observations to track trends and statistics, enhancing future forecasts.
Enhance Understanding
Communicate Current Conditions With Ease
The SnowObs platform is designed to share data within your operation. You can access SnowObs anytime and anywhere, from any web browser! Improve your situational awareness or pre-shift briefings by effectively communicating current weather and avalanche observations, either through charts or reports.
Easily Share Data
Create An Observation Community
Sharing weather and avalanche information with other organizations can be extremely tedious. With SnowObs, simply flip a switch and instantly share observations with other organizations in SnowObs. Your observations will be visible immediately to them, building operational safety and interagency collaboration.
Schedule a 20 Minute Demo
Find out how Snowbound Solutions can help your natural hazard operation be more effective and efficient with our custom technology solutions.