WHY THE ALPS INITIATIVE (EO4ALPS)
The Alps, with their biodiversity capital, water and wood reserves, are the natural, cultural, living and economic environment for nearly 14 million people and an attractive tourist destination for approximately 120 million guests every year. As explained in the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP) the Alpine area is composed of territories with contrasted demographic, social and economic trends and a great cultural and linguistic diversity. There is a growing interest in the implementation of macro-regional strategies to improve cooperation in the Alpine States. In this context, Earth Observation (EO) represents an opportunity to act as a potential catalyst for innovation and growth in the region as well as to face some of the complex issues ongoing in the alpine environment.
ACCESS RELEVANT DOCUMENTATION AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
The Geohazards Exploitation Platform enables the exploitation of satellite EO data to support the geohazard community
PARTNERS
ALPINE REGIONAL INITIATIVE PROJECTS
EAWAG (CH)
Applications
Earth Observation for operational hydrology ‘eo4alps snow’ – Alps regional initiative
MobyGIS Srl (IT)
Regional Initiatives
Earth Observation for Air Quality and Health ‘AlpAirEO’ – Alps regional initiative
DLR – GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER (DE)
Regional Initiatives
LATEST TWEETS AND RELEVANT PAPERS
❄️ Join the Snow monitoring with the #eo4alps #SnowDashboard #webinar 🗓️ Dec 15. ☝️ Learn how to evaluate snow water equivalent, snow depth & covered area in the Alps 2017-2022 and how to download data to use it for your applications. On the Blog: ESA-sponsored #EO4Alps GEP community presented solutions for landslide mapping, landslide monitoring, and landslide propagation modeling at the 20th Swiss Geosciences Meeting (SGM2022).
✍️ Register now! ➡️ https://lp.waterjade.com/webinar-eo4alps-snow-webinar-eng
Follow-up EO4Alps webinar: planned for Spring 2023.
https://discuss.terradue.com/t/1138
| Retrieval of snow and ice properties from the Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument Remote Sensing DOI: 10.3390/rs11192280 - 2019 |
| A method for automated snow avalanche debris detection through use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging Earth and Space Science DOI: 10.1002/2016EA000168 - 2016 |
| A complete snow avalanche activity record from a Norwegian forecasting region using Sentinel-1 satellite-radar data Cold Regions Science and Technology DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2017.08.004 - 2017 |
| Retrieval of Snow Properties from the Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument Remote Sensing DOI: 10.3390/rs11192280 - 2019 |
| Near-Real Time Automatic Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring System Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data in Norway Remote Sensing DOI: 10.3390/rs11232863 - 2019 |
| Light absorption by polluted snow cover: Internal versus external mixture of soot. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfe - 2020 |