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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 ... -
On the relationship between ecosystem-scale hyperspectral reflectance and CO2 exchange in European mountain grasslands
(2015)In this paper we explore the skill of hyperspectral reflectance measurements and vegetation indices (VIs) derived from these in estimating carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes of grasslands. Hyperspectral reflectance data, CO2 ... -
Methods for integrative research on community resilience to multiple hazards, with examples from Italy and England
(2014)Resilience is a framework widely used to help address questions in disaster risk reduction (DRR) research, policy and practice. There is increasing demand for understanding this at the community scale. The paper builds on ... -
Selecting sustainable alternatives for cruise ships in Venice using multi-criteria decision analysis
(2018)The rapid growth of cruise ship tourism increases the use of historic port cities as strategic hubs for cruise ship operators. Benefits derived from increased tourism for the municipality and cruise ships are often at odds ... -
Integration of PSI, MAI, and Intensity-Based Sub-Pixel Offset Tracking Results for Landslide Monitoring with X-Band Corner Reflectors—Italian Alps (Corvara)
(2018)This paper presents an analysis of the integration between interferometric and intensity-offsettracking-basedSARremotesensingforlandslidehazardmitigationintheItalianAlps. Despite the advantages of Synthetic Aperture Radar ... -
Estimación del área cubierta de nieve con datos sar en banda L en un sector cordillerano de la Patagonia Argentina
(2016)La estimación del área Cubierta de Nieve (ACN) en cuencas andinas es importante paraestudios hidrológicos y para una adecuada planificación del recurso agua en distintos usoscomo la generación hidroeléctrica, estudios de ... -
Organizing earth observation data inside a spatial data infrastructure
(2017)Scientists as well public institutions dealing with geospatial data often work with a large amount of heterogeneous data deriving from different sources. Without a well-defined, organized structure they face problems in ... -
Influence of physiological phenology on the seasonal pattern of ecosystem respiration in deciduous forests
(2015)Understanding the environmental and biotic drivers of respiration at the ecosystem level is a prerequisite to further improve scenarios of the global carbon cycle. In this study we investigated the relevance of physiological ... -
A novel Multilevel Biodiversity Index (MBI) for combined field and satellite imagery surveys
(2018)In an epoch of fast and dramatic changes in ecosystems, a complete survey of biodiversity and an analysis of its spatial patterns from the field shall be associated with satellite imagery, which can provide a synoptic ... -
Synergetic use of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for soil moisture mapping at plot scale
(2018)This paper presents an approach for retrieval of soil moisture content (SMC) by coupling single polarization C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical data at the plot scale in vegetated areas. The study was carried ...
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