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Virtual Constellation of X-C And L Band SAR Images to Assess Soil And Vegetation Water Content in Agricultural Areas
(2019)The present work exploits multi-frequency SAR and optical imagery in order to assess soil and vegetation water content values in agricultural areas in Italy and Argentina. Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, ALOS-2, RADARSAT-2, and ... -
The Relationship Between the Multi-Temporal Sentinel-1 Backscattering and the Snow Melting Dynamics in Alpine Region
(IEEE, 2019)Snow melting is a complex process generally characterized by a moistening, ripening and run-off phase. Identifying the timing of these phases is crucial for river discharge, avalanches and snow contaminants monitoring. An ... -
The (f)utility to account for pre-failure topography in data-driven landslide susceptibility modelling
(2020)The aim of most data-driven landslide susceptibility assessments is to generate a map that depicts zones that are prone to future landsliding. The underlying algorithms are usually trained on the basis of a dichotomous ... -
Integrating qualitative and quantitative data from stakeholders and modelling: the integrated risk assessment methodology used for the project “GreenRisk4Alps”
(2019)At: Inquimus 2019 ; Bonn ; 26/11/2018 - 28/11/2019 ; “GreenRisk4ALPs” is an Interreg Alpine Space project which aims at implementing an ecosystem-based risk management strategy for gravitational natural hazards in the ... -
Natural hazard risk reduction in the Alpine region: an assessment of alternative protection measures under different environmental scenarios
(2019)At: ClimRisk19 - 7 Conferenza Annuale della Societá Italiana per le Scienze del Clima ; Trento ; 23/10/2019 - 25/10/2019 ; Natural hazards have always affected human settlements, causing damage and fatalities and forcing ... -
Daily MODIS Snow Cover Maps for the European Alps from 2002 onwards at 250 m Horizontal Resolution Along with a Nearly Cloud-Free Version
(2019)Snow cover dynamics impact a whole range of systems in mountain regions, from society to economy to ecology; and they also affect downstream regions. Monitoring and analyzing snow cover dynamics has been facilitated with ... -
Evaluating Snow in EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Models with Observations for the European Alps: Biases and Their Relationship to Orography, Temperature, and Precipitation Mismatches
(2019)Climate models are important tools to assess current and future climate. While they have been extensively used for studying temperature and precipitation, only recently regional climate models (RCMs) arrived at horizontal ... -
An Unsupervised Method to Detect Rock Glacier Activity by Using Sentinel-1 SAR Interferometric Coherence: A Regional-Scale Study in the Eastern European Alps
(2019)Rock glaciers are widespread periglacial landforms in mountain regions like the European Alps. Depending on their ice content, they are characterized by slow downslope displacement due to permafrost creep. These landforms ... -
The Role of Risk Communication in Risk Governance: from Research to Practice
(2019)Presentation at: International Mountain Conference ; Innsbruck : 8.9.2019 - 12.9.2019 ; Risk communication represents an essential element of integrated risk management. It has the potential to increase the resilience ... -
Rapid risk appraisal: an approach to rapidly acquire information on natural hazard risks through local stakeholder involvement
(2019)Presentation at: International Mountain Conference ; Innsbruck ; 8.9.2019 - 12.9.2019 To achieve a comprehensive risk assessment of a study area, two main elements are required: data on locations and type of natural ... -
Risk Communication and Risk Perception in South Tyrol and Carinthia: Recommendations for Improved Risk Communication Strategies
(2019)Presentation at: International Mountain Conference ; Innsbruck ; 8.9.2019 - 12.9.2019 ; Challenges within risk governance of natural hazards partly emerge due to knowledge gaps concerning the communication of risks to ... -
Workshop ID.32365 SOLID EARTH & DISASTER RISK REDUCTION: Landslides Monitoring: Remote Sensing Observations for Landslide Identification and Landslide Susceptibility Assessment in the Longnan Region and the European Alps
(2019)Presentation at: 2019 Dragon 4 Symposium ; Ljubljana ; 24.6.2019 - 28.6.2019 ; In the past, different approaches for automated landslide detection based on multispectral satellite image analysis were developed to focus ... -
Remote Sensing Landslide Detection in the Longnan Region and the European Alps
(2019)Presentation at: 2019 Dragon 4 Symposium ; Ljubljana : 24.6.2019 - 28.6.2019 ; In the past, different approaches for automated landslide detection based on multispectral satellite image analysis were developed to focus ... -
Transformative natural hazard risk education – An approach to link risk communication and sustainability education within the framework of current societal challenges
(2019)In the light of current global societal challenges, natural hazard risk governance requires both adaptive and transformative responses and education can play a key role in that. This contribution proposes to integrate ... -
Investigating the role of alpine forests as Eco-DRR against gravitational hazards: a socio-economic analysis
(2019)The implementation of effective Ecosystem-based solutions for Disaster risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) is still lacking in the current risk management strategies adopted at local level. This can be due to a general concern about ... -
Investigating the role of alpine forests as Eco-DRR against gravitational hazards: a socio-economic analysis
(2019)The Alps have experienced deep socio-economic transition changes in the last decades, as land-use changes, mass tourism and increasing limitations to settlement space. Moreover, several studies affirm that, as a consequence ... -
Natural hazard risk education within the framework of current societal challenges – A case study for South Tyrol
(2019)This poster presents a case study which exemplifies how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and natural hazard risk communication can be linked in practice. The study is conducted within the framework of my master ... -
UAV-based hyperspectral techniques for monitoring shallow erosion in alpine pastures
(2019)Shallow erosion processes often have negative impacts on mountain agriculture, natural hazards and landscape aesthetics. In the Alps, they are characterized by the displacement of vegetation together with unconsolidated ... -
Evaluation of statistical and machine learning based landslide susceptibility models for very large areas – coping with error prone input data
(2019)Previous research highlights that not only the input data quality, but also the applied classification technique affects substantially the results and the feasibility of subsequent landslide susceptibility analyses. The ... -
Integrating statistical modelling and remote sensing for the detection of snow avalanches in South Tyrol (Italy)
(2019)Snow avalanches are hazardous phenomena in many mountain environments and can pose a serious threat to people and their properties. Reliable information on the location and timing of past avalanches (i.e. inventory data) ...
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