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Review of Machine Learning Approaches for Biomass and Soil Moisture Retrievals from Remote Sensing Data
(2015)The enormous increase of remote sensing data from airborne and space-borne platforms, as well as ground measurements has directed the attention of scientists towards new and efficient retrieval methodologies. Of particular ... -
TITAN AS REVEALED BY THE CASSINI RADAR
(2019)Titan was a mostly unknown world prior to the Cassini spacecraft’s arrival in July 2004. We review the major scientific advances made by Cassini’s Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) during 13 years of Cassini’s exploration of ... -
Estimating tree species diversity from space in an alpine conifer forest: The Rao's Q diversity index meets the spectral variation hypothesis
(2019)Forests cover about 30% of the Earth surface, they are among the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems and represent the bulk of many ecological processes and services. The assessment of biodiversity is an important and ... -
On the Automated Mapping of Snow Cover on Glaciers and Calculation of Snow Line Altitudes from Multi-Temporal Landsat Data
(2019)Mapping snow cover (SC) on glaciers at the end of the ablation period provides a possibility to rapidly obtain a proxy for their equilibrium line altitude (ELA) which in turn is a metric for the mass balance. Satellite ... -
A Fractal Algorithm for Surface Roughness Parameters retrieval using Multi -Band/polarization AIRSAR Data
(2019)Surface roughness is an important characteristic in analyzing SAR images and three-dimensional (3D) surfaces that influence the backscattering of electromagnetic waves. This paper proposes an algorithm based on a fractal ... -
Il progetto GreenRisk4Alps: Misure "verdi" per la gestione dei rischi naturali sulle Alpi
(2019)GreenRisk4ALPs: towards the implementation of ecosystem-based solutions for risk management in the Alps. Forests and mountain ecosystems play a crucial role in the mitigation of risks deriving from natural hazards in the ... -
Downscaling Land Surface Temperature from MODIS Dataset with Random Forest Approach over Alpine Vegetated Areas
(2019)In this study, we evaluated three different downscaling approaches to enhance spatial resolution of thermal imagery over Alpine vegetated areas. Due to the topographical and land-cover complexity and to the sparse ... -
A Methodology for Heterogeneous Sensor Data Organization and Near Real-Time Data Sharing by Adopting OGC SWE Standards
(2019)Finding a solution to collect, analyze, and share, in near real-time, data acquired by heterogeneous sensors, such as traffic, air pollution, soil moisture, or weather data, represents a great challenge. This paper describes ... -
Relationship between Spatiotemporal Variations of Climate, Snow Cover and Plant Phenology over the Alps: An Earth Observation-Based Analysis
(2018)Alpine ecosystems are particularly sensitive to climate change, and therefore it is of significant interest to understand the relationships between phenology and its seasonal drivers in mountain areas. However, no alpine-wide ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Multi-risk assessment in mountain regions: A review of modelling approaches for climate change adaptation
(2019)Climate change has already led to a wide range of impacts on our society, the economy and the environment. According to future scenarios, mountain regions are highly vulnerable to climate impacts, including changes in the ... -
Strategies to improve the explanatory power of a dynamic slope stability model by enhancing land cover parameterisation and model complexity
(2018)Despite the importance of land cover on landscape hydrology and slope stability, the representation of land cover dynamics in physically based models and their associated ecohydrological effects on slope stability is rather ... -
Titan’s “Magic Islands”: Transient features in a hydrocarbon sea
(2016)The region of Titan's hydrocarbon sea, Ligeia Mare, where transient bright features were previously discovered, was anomalously bright in the first of two more recent Cassini RADAR observations but not the second. Another ... -
Sentinel-1 and Ground-Based Sensors for Continuous Monitoring of the Corvara Landslide (South Tyrol, Italy)
(2018)The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission provides synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquisitions over large areas with high temporal and spatial resolution. This new generation of satellites providing open-data products has enhanced ... -
Drought Impact on Phenology and Green Biomass Production of Alpine Mountain Forest—Case Study of South Tyrol 2001–2012 Inspected with MODIS Time Series
(2018)Ecological balance and biodiversity of the alpine forest is endangered by global and local climatic extremes. It spurs a need for comprehensive forest monitoring, including in depth analyses of drought impact on the ... -
Uncertainty analysis of gross primary production upscaling using Random Forests, remote sensing and eddy covariance data
(2015)The accurate quantification of carbon fluxes at continental spatial scale is important for future policy decisions in the context of global climate change. However, many elements contribute to the uncertainty of such ...
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