Near-Real Time Automatic Snow Avalanche Activity Monitoring System Using Sentinel-1 SAR Data in Norway

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hannah Vickers, Eirik Malnes, Jakob Grahn
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: SAR; Sentinel-1; snow avalanche; automatic detection; Norway; The Sentinel; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11232863

Knowledge of the spatio-temporal occurrence of avalanche activity is critical for avalanche forecasting. We present a near-real time automatic avalanche monitoring system that outputs detected avalanche polygons within roughly 10 min after Sentinel-1 SAR data are download. Our avalanche detection al...