Over the last years, webcams and real-time monitoring have become more and more popular. Especially in mountainous regions webcams are widespread (e.g. ski fields, lakes, traffic, etc.). As these images provide information in high spatial and high temporal resolution, the…
From 10th to 21st September a Spring School dedicated to the use of SAR as a tool to monitor the environment is taking place in Córdoba, Argentina. https://sites.google.com/ig.edu.ar/3er-escuela-de-primavera/home Claudia Notarnicola, vice director of the Institute for Earth Observation of Eurac…
Over the course of the last weeks both Italian and international press reported on the current drought situation in Italy (the Guardian, die Zeit, la Repubblica). The spring of 2017 was one of the driest, in Italy, in about 60…
Now we are getting started with the Sentinel Alpine Observatory and we are very excited to use this platform to share progress, development and results of our work with you. Within the run of the year 2017 more and more…
The SAO team members Felix Greifeneder, Ruth Sonnenschein, and Sarah Asam hold a training course on “Sentinel Satellites Data Analysis” at our partner institution International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in Kathmandu (Nepal) from January 30 until February 3,…
This animation shows the temporal changes in the glacier cover types during the ablation period 2015 (from June 22 to September 14) as detected by the proposed EURAC approach, which exploits the Sentinel-1 C-band SAR instrument. The area of interest…
This animation shows the temporal changes in wet snow and snow cover as detected by the two approaches developed by Eurac Research, which use Sentinel-1 C-band SAR and MODIS instruments, respectively. The investigated area corresponds to the upper Adige catchment…
With data acquired from the Sentinel-2A satellite a view of South Tyrol from Space is now easier than ever before to obtain! You can see the seasonal cycle over the run of the year 2016 from January to October. Starting…