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Remote sensing based comprehensive monitoring of land cover change in protected areas
(2017)Land cover changes - due to climate or land use change - are a common challenge for the management of protected areas. Over the last decades, large parts of the European Alps have experienced forest expansion and shrub ... -
Cosmic Ray Neutron sensing in complex systems
(2018)Soil moisture is a key variable in environmental monitoring and modelling: being located at the soil-atmosphere boundary, it is a driving force for water, energy and carbon fluxes. Nevertheless its importance, ... -
Design of a low-cost and open-source sensor node for landslide monitoring oriented to IoT early warning system: a case of study in alpine areas
(2018)The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining increasing attention, in particular because of the continuous investments in telecommunication services and the development of new miniaturized systems. Nowadays, it is ... -
Beyond the Expected – Dealing with the Case of Overload and Residual Risk of Natural Hazards in the Alpine Region
(2018)An integrated and interdisciplinary management of the risks associated with natural hazards has become most widely standard in the Alps. Integrated risk management (IRM) can be seen as crucial part of the overarching concept ... -
Sentinel-2-based annual forest changes across the European Alps
(2018)Forest covers more than 40% of the European Alps and fulfills an important role in protecting against avalanches and rockslides. Forest changes are often small-scaled, but fundamental for forest management to assess the ... -
A Near Real Time Monitoring System for Alpine and Mountain Regions
(2017)Multispectral sensors at medium resolution are characterized by large coverage and frequent revisit times and are useful to describe features of the land, cryosphere and atmosphere that can be used for studies of status ... -
A Comparison of the Signal from Diverse Optical Sensors for Monitoring Alpine Grassland Dynamics
(2019)Grasslands cover up to 40% of the mountain areas globally and 23% of the European Alps and affect numerous key ecological processes. An increasing number of optical sensors offer a great opportunity to monitor and address ... -
Soil moisture estimation by SAR in Alpine fields using Gaussian Process Regressor trained by model simulations
(2017)In this paper, we address the problem of retrieving soil moisture over a grassland alpine area from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data using a statistical algorithm trained by simulations of a physical model. A time series ... -
THE SCALEX CAMPAIGN: Scale-Crossing Land Surface and Boundary Layer Processes in the TERENO-preAlpine Observatory
(AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC, 2017)Augmenting long-term ecosystem-atmosphere observations with multidisciplinary intensive campaigns aims to close gaps in spatial and temporal scales of observation for energy and biogeochemical cycling and stimulate ... -
Altitude-dependent influence of snow cover on alpine land surface phenology
(2017)Snow cover impacts alpine land surface phenology in various ways, but our knowledge about the effect of snow cover on alpine land surface phenology is still limited. We studied this relationship in the European Alps using ... -
Beyond the Expected: Dealing with Cases of Overload and the Residual Risk of Natural Hazards in the Alpine Region
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Climate change impact assessment on mountain water resources: a System Dynamics approach supporting multi-risk management and adaptation planning
(2018)Mountain environments are facing important impacts due to climate change and human activities. Shifts of temperature and precipitation are affecting the amount of available water in mountain environments, especially ... -
Multi-hazard and multi-risk in mountains: applying the IPCC-AR5 concept in practice
(2018)While most hazards have been critically scrutinised for many years, research about the interaction of multiple hazards and the assessment of related risks is still in its infancy. This limitation may have substantial ... -
Landslide susceptibility: a statistically-based assessment on a depositional pyroclastic ramp
(2019)This study aimed to produce a high-quality landslide susceptibility map for Teziutlán municipality, a landslide-prone region in Mexico, which is characterised by a depositional pyroclastic ramp. The heterogeneous quality ... -
Regionale Risiko Governance: Recht, Politik und Praxis
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X and C-Band SAR Images Applied to Landslide Monitoring in Corvara in Badia, Italy
(2016)The Corvara Landslide (Italian Alps) has been active for over 10,000 years, and systematic ground GPS monitoring within the last 15 years has revealed displacement vectors of up to 50 meters for only one year. In this work ... -
Landslide Monitoring with Multi-Sensor and Temporal Scale Approaches: A Test Site in Alpine Environment
(2017)Landslides in alpine environment are present as earthflows, rock falls, shallow slides, debris flows, among others. The dynamics of the surface deformations have many causes, among them the inner geomorphological processes, ...
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