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The Alps from Space Workshop, 27-29 June 2018,
Villa Blanka, 31, Weiherburggasse, Innsbruck, Austria.

WEDNESDAY 27 June 2018

 

 

Title

Name

Affiliation

8.00

9.00

Registration 

9.00

9.15

Welcome by the host

T. Geist

FFG 

9.15

9.45

Objectives and Planning of the workshop (setting the scene)

M. Rast/G. Campbell

ESA 

9.45

10.30

Views of the EC (DG, RTD)

A. Tilche (per video)      

DG/RTD 

10.30

11.00

Coffee Break

11.00

13.00

Keynotes     

Chairs: M.Rast (ESA), E. Doyle (ESA) 

11.00

11.20

Research Needs for the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Alps – a View from the Alpine Convention

M. Reiterer

Secretariat General Alpine Convention  

11.20

11.40

EEA EO Activities and Link to the Alpine Convention

 A. Littkopf

EEA-ETC Urban, Land and Soil 

11.40

12.00

AlpSenseBench: Alpine Remote Sensing of Climate-Induced Natural Hazards - A Benchmark Project in the EU-Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP)

M. Krautblatter

Technical University of Munich 

12.00

12.20

The Virtual Alpine Observatory, VAO

M. Bittner

DLR

12.20

12.40

Connecting observations in the mountain environment: the role of the Mountain Research Initiative and the Global Network for Observation and Information in Mountain Environments (GEO-GNOME)

C. Adler

MRI 

12.40

13.00

Monitoring Environmental Dynamics in the Alps With Earth Observation - The Sentinel Alpine Observatory

M. Zebisch

EURAC

13.00

14.00

Lunch

14.00

16.00

Session #1. Alpine Process in Response to Climate and Environmental Change     

Chair: T. Geist (Austrian Research Promotion Agency - FFG)
Rapporteur: M. Rast (ESA) 

14.00

14.20

Mapping Snow Depth Variability in Complex Terrain – How Good Can We Get?

Y. Bühler

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research - WSL

14.20

14.40

Operational Snow Cover Monitoring in the Eastern European Alps

R. Koch presented by: M. Avian

Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics - ZAMG

14.40

15.00

EO for Soil Moisture Monitoring Within the BMNT

F. Schmid

Austrian Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism

15.00

15.20

From Long-Term to Near-Real Time: Understanding Alpine Snow Cover Processes from Space

S. Wunderle

University of Bern

15.20

15.40

Glacier Shrinkage in the Alps Continues Unabated as Revealed by a New Glacier Inventory from Sentinel 2

F. Paul

University of Zurich

15.40

16.00

Snow Monitoring in Alpine Areas Using Copernicus Satellites

T. Nagler

ENVEO IT GmbH

16.00

16.30

Coffee Break

16.30

18.30

Session #2 Combination of Satellite- and Ground-Based Measurements

Chair: Y. Bühler (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow & Landscape Research)
Rapporteur: E. Volden (ESA) 

16.30

16.50

Ground-Based Soil Moisture Measurements Using Cosmic Ray Neutrons for Validation of Sentinel Monitoring Data

W. Rühm

Helmholtz Zentrum München

16.50

17.10

Total GHG Emissions of an Alpine City: Synergetic Inversion of Space-Borne and Ground-Based Total Column Soundings

R. Sussmann

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

17.10

17.30

Air Quality Monitoring and Simulation Over Bavaria and Slovenia

E. Khorsandi

DLR

17.30

17.50

Defining Alps Structure and Dynamics Through Terrestrial and Satellite Gravity

C. Braitenberg

University of Trieste

17.50

18.10

Novel Approaches to Lake Monitoring in the European Alpine Region

D. Odermatt

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology - Eawag

18.10

18.30

Discussion & Rapporteur Summary 

18.30

20.00

Welcome Cocktail & Poster Session

THURSDAY 28 June 2018

8.30

10.30

Session #3 Natural Resources – Availability and Exploitation     

Chair: M. Bittner (DLR)
Rapporteur: E. Volden (ESA) 

8.30

8.50

The AlpMon Project: Near Real-Time Monitoring of Alpine Forests

J. Deutscher

Joanneum Research

8.50

9.10

Copernicus Glacier Monitoring Service for the Alps

H. Rott

ENVEO IT GmbH

9.10

9.30

Exploitation of Sentinel Data for Monitoring Water Resources in the Alps

C. Notarnicola

Eurac Research - Institute for Earth Observatoin

9.30

9.50

Analysing the Potential of Multispectral Sensors to Map Vegetation Parameters in Pre-Alpine and Alpine Grasslands

A. Schucknecht

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT

9.50

10.10

Identifying Grassland Management Intensity in Switzerland With High Resolution Satellite Imagery

R. Pazur

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research - WSL

10.10

10.30

Advances in Operational Monitoring of Snow Water Resources in the Alps

T. Jonas

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research - WSL

10.30

11.00

Coffee Break

11.00

13.00

Session #4 Atmospheric Processes, Pollutants and Meteorological Stress     

Chair: S. Kolesa (Slovenian Ministry of Economic Development and Technology)
Rapporteur: C. Retscher (ESA) 

11.00

11.20

Integrating Aerosol Measurements from Satellite and Ground-Based In-Situ Measurements by Using 3D UAV Observations

T. Popp

DLR

11.20

11.40

Changes and Variability in the Mid-Latitudinal Large Scale Dynamic:
Is There a Relation to Extreme Temperature Events?

L. Küchelbacher

DLR

11.40

12.00

Influence of the Alps on the Middle Atmosphere and Vice Versa: Observations, Open Questions, and Perspectives

S. Wüst

DLR

12.00

12.20

Cloudkite: An Airborne Platform for Resolving Clouds

E. Bodenschatz

Max Planck Institute For Dynamics And Self-Organization

12.20

12.40

OH Airglow Observations to Characterize Middle Atmospheric Dynamics

P. Hannawald

University Of Augsburg

12.40

13.00

AlpAirEO - Pioneering the Environmental Health Risk Assessment in the Alps Integrating Sentinel and Copernicus Data

T. Erbertseder

DLR

13.00

14.00

Lunch

14.00

16.00

Session #5. Natural Hazards     

Chair: J.P. Malet (Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg)
Rapporteur: P. Bally (ESA) 

14.00

14.20

A Space-Based Operational Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring System: Assisting Snow Avalanche Forecasting Worldwide

H. Vickers

Norut

14.20

14.40

Monitoring Avalanche Debris in the French Alps Using Sentinel-1 SAR Observations

F. Karbou

CNRM (Météo-France & CNRS) / CEN

14.40

15.00

Precursory Motions Before Landslide Failures Detected From Sentinel-2 Satellites

P. Lacroix

ISTerre

15.00

15.20

Detection and Monitoring of Large Landslides from Optical Satellite Image Time-Series: The Prototype MPIC Service Tailored for the Alpine Massif

J. P. Malet

CNRS / Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre

15.20

15.40

Semi-Automatic Continuous Monitoring of Slopes Stability Using Sentinel-1 Over Valle d’Aosta Region, Italy

M. Bianchi

Tre Altamira Srl

15.40

16.00

Potential Contribution of Earth Observation to Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning Systems

H. Frey

University of Zurich

16.00

16.30

Coffee Break

16.30

18.30

Session #6. Economic Development and Ecological Networks    

Chair: M. Zebisch (EURAC)
Rapporteur: G. Campbell (ESA) 

16.30

16.50

Assessing Plant Traits from Sentinel-2 Images: A Physical Based Approach in Differently Managed Alpine Grasslands

C. Rossi

Swiss National Park

16.50

17.10

Is Pléiades Stereo Satellite Imagery an Appropriate Data Source for the Generation of Alpine-Wide Canopy Height Models?

L. Piermattei

TU Wien

17.10

17.30

Space Supporting Security for Alpine Summer Tourism – Demand Case From the Austrian Alps

A. Walli

GeoVille GmbH

17.30

17.50

Earth Observation for Biotope- and Habitat-Type-Mapping in the Austrian Alpine Zone

T. Strasser

University of Salzburg

17.50

18.10

Agricultural monitoring in Alpine Environments

C. Storch presented by: R. Richter

GAF AG

18.10

18.30

Discussion & Rapporteur Summary 

18.30

20.00

Cocktail offered by FFG & Poster Session

FRIDAY 29 June 2018

9.00

10.30

Session #7 Infrastructure and Data Analytics

Chair: M. Nyenhuis (DLR)
Rapporteur: A. Romeo (RHEA System for ESA) 

9.00

9.20

AlpEnDAC - Services for Science: Data Analysis Center for Scientific Applications in the Alpine Region

J. Meyer-Arnek

DLR

9.20

9.40

Technology behind the Alpine Enviromental Data Analysis Centre (AlpEnDAC)

S. Hachinger

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre - LRZ

9.40

10.00

EODC: A Platform for the Exploitation of Multi-Temporal Terrestrial, Airborne, and Satellite Data for the Alpine Region

C. Briese

EODC

10.00

10.20

Hosted Processing Tools of the Geohazard Lab Initiative in Support to Geohazard Risks in the Alps

M. Foumelis

BRGM - French Geological Survey

10.20

10.40

Alpine Land Cover Dynamics from Radar Time Series

D. Small

University of Zurich

10.40

11.00

Continuous Forest Monitoring Based on Variety of Free Optical Satellite Data

P. Pehani

ZRC SAZU

11.00

11.20

Coffee Break

11.20

11.30

Discussion & Rapporteur Summary

11.30

13.00

Panel Discussion & Roadmap

13.00

14.00

Farewell Light Lunch

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POSTER LIST

EO 4 ALPS WORKSHOP

Poster Board Number

Paper Number

Paper Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1. Economic Development and Ecological Networks

1

68

Monitoring Surface Deformation in Alpine Regions at the Country-scale With Sentinel-1: First Results Obtained With P-SBAS Over Switzerland

Andrea

Manconi

ETH Zurich

2. Natural Resources – Availability and Exploitation 

2

27

Monitoring Forest Regeneration With Earth Observation – the Upper Meža Valley Case Study

Krištof

Oštir

University of Ljubljana

3

49

Sentinel-2 Semantic Data Cube Austria (Sen2Cube.at)

Dirk

Tiede

Department Of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University Of Salzburg

4

60

Validation and Enhancement of Theia Snow Cover Extent Products From High Resolution Images

Marine

Bouchet

Cesbio

5

73

Mapping Tree Species in Complex Terrain Based on Sentinel-2 Time Series

Andreas

Kollert

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Innsbruck, Austria

6

77

High-Resolution Forest Change Maps for the European Alps

Ruth

Sonnenschein

Eurac

4. Natural Hazards

7

11

Space-Time Patterns of Meteorological Drought Events in the European Greater Alpine Region Over the Past 210 Years.

Klaus

Haslinger

Zentralanstalt Für Meteorologie Und Geodynamik (zamg)

8

15

Surface Deformation Rates of a Deep-Seated Toppling Slope Failure in Lienz (Tyrol, Austria)

Anne

Hormes

Sky4geo

9

17

The Value of the Sentinel-1 6-Day Acquisition Cycle for Process-Scale Landslide Hazard Assessment and Monitoring in the Swiss Alps

Rafael

Caduff

Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland

10

23

Need for Satellite-Based High-Resolution Wildfire Danger Services for the Alpine Region

Wouter

Dorigo

TU Wien

11

54

Remote Sensing for Landslide Investigation: Mapping, Monitoring and Modelling the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Land Surface Morphology

Dirk

Tiede

Department Of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University Of Salzburg

12

56

Monitoring Slow Moving Landslides from Space and on the Ground – A Case Study From the Italian Alps

Christian

Kofler

Eurac Research

13

70

Landslide Monitoring in the Italian Alps Using Sentinel 2 Indicators of Vegetation Dynamics

Anton

Evdokimov

University Of Milano Bicocca

14

90

Earth Observation to detect climate effect on weather-related hazards in mountainous regions

Romy

Schlögel

ESA Climate Office, ECSAT

15

91

Joint SAR/Optical Analysis of the Deformation Pattern of Rapidly Evolving Landslides During Crisis: The Pas de l’Ours Landslide – Queyras, French Alps

Floriane

Provost

Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre

16

98

Mapping Vulnerable Alpine Areas Affected by Slow Moving Landslides Using InSAR Data

Mateja

Jemec - Auflič

Geological Survey of Slovenia

06.  Alpine Process in Response to Climate and Environmental Change

17

7

Two Decades of Rock Glaciers and Periglacial Slope Movements Analysis in Western Swiss Alps: Results From the Hérens Valley

Chloé

Barboux

University of Fribourg, Geosciences - Geography

18

8

Validation of SAR Remote Sensing Data on Wet Snow With In-Situ Measured Liquid Water Contents in the Alpine Snowpack

Kerstin

Hürkamp

Helmholtz Zentrum München

19

10

Using Sentinel-2 Data to Benchmark Modelled Glacier Evolution in the Western European Alps

Simone

Gabellani

Cima Research Foundation

20

20

Towards Automated Production of Regional Geomorphological Inventories Based on Satellite Data

Clemens

Eisank

GRID-IT GmbH

21

39

Monitoring Alpine Cryosphere Using Sentinel Data

Carlo

Marin

Eurac Research

22

59

Sentinel-1 InSAR Processing System to Support High Mountain Hazard Assessment

Andreas

Wiesmann

Gamma Remote Sensing AG

23

71

Mapping the Spatial Distribution of the Alpine Treeline Ecotone with Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 Images

Micol

Rossini

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca

24

81

Remote Sensing of Snow Cover in the Alps. An Overview of Opportunities and Constraints.

Andreas

Dietz

German Aerospace Center (dlr)

25

82

Understanding Spatiotemporal Vegetation Patterns and Phenology Over the Alps Based on Medium Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Data

Sarah

Asam

DLR

26

83

Mapping Snow Cover Extent Using Optical and SAR Data

Anna

Wendleder

German Aerospace Center

27

84

Land Cover Classification and Change Detection in European High-Altitude Regions

Stefan

Mayr

Department Of Geography, University Of Innsbruck

28

92

On the Use of Optical Satellite Data for Snowpack Monitoring in Mountainous Areas

Marie

Dumont

Meteo-France – CNRS

07. Atmospheric Processes, Pollutants and Meteorological Stress 

29

36

Observation of Middle Atmospheric Dynamics Above the Alps by Means of SWIR Airglow Spectroscopy

Carsten

Schmidt

German Aerospace Center

30

100

Horizontal Open-Path FTS Measurements for Bridging the Gap Between High Accurate Point Measurements and Spatially Averaging Atmospheric Models Using Vertical Greenhouse Gas Retrievals from Satellite (H-OP-FTS)

Markus

Leuenberger

University of Bern & International Foundation High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat (HFSJG)

08. Combination of Satellite- and Ground-Based Measurements

31

16

The European Datacube: Standards-Based Timeseries Analytics and Data Fusion

Peter

Baumann

Jacobs University | rasdaman Gmbh

32

18

Assimilation of MODIS AOD During the Saharan Dust Episode in April 2016

Barbara

Scherllin-Pirscher

Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik

33

22

Measurements of Atmospheric Key Species at the GAW Global Station Zugspitze/Hohenpeissenberg – Opportunities for Ground Thruthing and Intercomparison Campaigns

Werner

Thomas

Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg

34

31

Towards Seamless Validation of Satellite Data

Frank

Baier

German Aerospace Center

35

32

Satellite Applications for the Benefit of the Alps (SABA)

Frank

Baier

German Aerospace Center

36

33

Operational Use of Sentinel-2 Data to Infer Alpine Ecosystems Phenology, Productivity and Responses to Climate Variability.

Edoardo

Cremonese

Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley

37

40

Dealing With the Influence of Differences in Measurement Time, Space and Addressed Air Volume of Satellite and Reference Measurements on Validation Results: Development and Presentation of an Internet-Based Tool

Sabine

Wüst

DLR-DFD

38

46

Low-Cost System to Monitor Ground Deformations Based on Galileo, Sentinel InSAR and Inertial Measurement Units: the GIMS Project.

Daniele

Sampietro

Geomatics Research & Development Srl

39

47

Detection of Potential Areas of Surface Motion In Alpine Regions Based on Differential SAR Interferometry

Karlheinz

Gutjahr

Joanneum Research

40

48

Infrastructure for Earth Observation in the Alps: The Perspective from the Eurac Research Sentinel Alpine Observatory

Alexander

Jacob

Eurac Research

41

51

Monitoring Alpine Grassland Dynamics With Optical Sensors on Multiple Spatial Scales

Mattia

Rossi

Eurac Research

42

57

Combination of In Situ GNSS Snow Water Equivalent Measurements with EO and Hydrological Modelling – Results of ESA IAP Demo Project SnowSense

Florian

Appel

VISTA GmbH

43

58

GNSS Remote Sensing of Snow Properties at High-Alpine Stations and Potential Applications

Franziska

Koch

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, IWHW

44

63

AlpClimNet: A Network for Climate Protection in the Alpine Space

Elena

Kalusche

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

45

67

Integrating Ground-Based Seismic Data and Spaceborne Radar to Identify, Locate and Assess Rock Slope Failure in Alpine Areas

Andrea

Manconi

ETH Zurich

46

76

Closing the Gap between Remote Sensing And Snow Hydrological Modelling by Ground Based Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing

Paul

Schattan

Alps Research, Institue Of Geography, University Of Innsbruck; Alps Gmbh

47

78

Monitoring of Structural Health Monitoring of Critical Infrastructures and Adjacent Areas by Sensor Fusion of DInSAR and Ground Sensors

Michael

Avian

Zentralanstalt Für Meteorologie Und Geodynamik

48

79

IRS Satellite Data of More Than 20 Years as Basis for Retrospective, Long-Term Analysis

Andreas

Uttenthaler

GAF AG

49

94

Kalideos in the Alps: A Programme of CNES to Accompany and Promote Remote Sensing Use

Laurence

Houpert

CNES

50

99

The Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus | Zugspitze

Inga

Beck

Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus

51

101

Quality Check of Water Isotope Distribution from Space to Ground by Vertical Profiling and Altitude Dependent In-Situ Records

Markus

Leuenberger

University of Bern & International Foundation High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat (HFSJG)

52

102

Glider-AirCore Analyses Linking Ground-Based and Column Integrated Trace Gas Measurements with Satellite Retrievals

Markus

Leuenberger

University of Bern & International Foundation High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat (HFSJG)


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