Harnessing Environmental Data at the Edge of the Cloud ...
Global warming is a defining challenge of our time with devastating consequences for local habitats. High mountain areas are particularly affected by global warming leading to a decline of their cryosphere (glaciers, snow cover and permafrost). In high-alpine steep bedrock, permafrost thaw decreases...
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ETH Zurich
2021
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000536692 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/536692 |
| Summary: | Global warming is a defining challenge of our time with devastating consequences for local habitats. High mountain areas are particularly affected by global warming leading to a decline of their cryosphere (glaciers, snow cover and permafrost). In high-alpine steep bedrock, permafrost thaw decreases the stability of mountain slopes leading to an increase of rockfalls and landslides and thereby putting life and built infrastructure at risk. Monitoring these environmental changes is important for natural hazard warning and understanding the geophysical processes leading to such hazards. Moreover, by providing evidence from large-scale, long-term measurements, environmental monitoring helps to bolster scientific findings and can call attention to the immediate impacts of climate change. The rise of wireless sensor networks offers a range of possibilities for environmental monitoring enabling large-scale deployments with high spatial-temporal resolution using many different sensor types. The cheap and diverse ... : TIK-Schriftenreihe, 194 ... |
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