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eo4alps		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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