Detection of avalanche debris fields in high resolution SAR imagery

• Main Author: Vognild, Erlend
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 2014
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Physics: 430::Electromagnetism; acoustics; optics: 434; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Fysikk: 430::Elektromagnetisme; akustikk; optikk: 434; EOM-3901; Norway; Senja; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6604

During the winter of 2013, Northern Norway saw several large avalanche episodes that caused closed roads and loss of human lives. On Senja and Kval\o ya two large avalanches were reported and images from RADARSAT-2 were ordered in ultrafine mode with the goal of detecting these large avalanches in S...