Remote Sensing of Mountain Environment – Sate of the Art and Outlook. The Alps under Review Land use change Rio Earth Summit, Mountain Pavilion, 16 June 2012 Technical Workshop : “Mountains under review: human alteration of landscape” Marc Zebisch, Ulrike Tappeiner, Thomas Streifeneder, Giacomo
Presentation made by Giacomo Luciani, EURACAccording to the GLOCHAMORE strategy (2005), which is a joint project of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), UNESCO/MABand IHP, and the EU Framework Programme 6 the ten most pressing issues which need research and monitoring are: - Climate- Land Use Change- The Cryosphere- Water Systems- Ecosystem Function and Services- Biodiversity- Hazards- Health- Mountain Economies- Society and Global ChangeBut how to set-up a proper monitoring approach for hot topics like land-use change to “review” mountain regions?First, we have to understand the Requirements, which might be defined by users like regional or national authorities or trans-national authorities or even by the research community. Second, we have to select appropriate measures for monitoring. Today, we have a huge range of techniques such as field work (including natural and social science surveys), remote sensing and satellite data intepretation, which provides an up-to-date and area wide overwiew, modelling, which allows us to look into the unknown and to project future developments, Database surveys, like analysing statistical data or even face-to-face expert interview. But colleting data and analyisng data is not enough. In the end data need to be integrated, interpreted and assessed with respect to the objectives set for the monitoring task. EURAC is working in all scales, from pilot scale to mountain ranges.
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1. The Alps under ReviewLand use change Remote Sensing of
Mountain Environment Sate of the Art and Outlook. Rio Earth Summit,
Mountain Pavilion, 16 June 2012Technical Workshop : Mountains under
review: human alteration of landscapeMarc Zebisch, Ulrike
Tappeiner, Thomas Streifeneder, Giacomo Luciani
2. Hot topics for mountain regions Climate Land Use Change The
Cryosphere Water Systems Ecosystem Function and Services
Biodiversity Hazards Health Mountain Economies Society and Global
Change 3. Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Require- mentsUser
requirements Research requirements Analysis Remote Database
ExpertField Work SensingModeling surveys InterviewsSynthesis
AssessmentReports +User WebGis Consultancy 4. The Alps are a
biodiversity hotspot in Europe the water tower of large parts of
Europe warming twice as fast as the global average densely
populated and cut by transit routes from Northernto Southern Europe
under pressure by land-use change, tourism and transport
socioeconomically strongly interrelated with the non-Alpine regions
Strong demand for monitoring natural, social and economic changes
5. EURAC is a center for interdisciplinary mountain research
situated in the heart of the Alps focusing on monitoring and
assessing the interaction ofenvironment and society in mountain
regions working on strategies of sustainability in the Alps and
othermountain areas 6. Research Area EURAC Mountains 7. Scales of
MonitoringPilot scaleLandscape scale Mountain range
scaleUpscalingDownscaling 8. Tracking land-use
changesPastPresenceFutureChange detection, Scenarios time series
analysis 9. Tracking land-use changes12% Land abandonment since
1865 34%abandoned 80% 52%agriculturally used 10. Monitoring
Habitats HabitatHabitat MapSatellite Data Conservation Status 11.
Forest damage assessmentwith Remote Sensing 27.08.2010 in Mhlwald
in Pustertal 21.06.2011 in Brixen & BruneckFoto: FF Mhlwald
Foto: Roland Volgger/STOL(Sdtirol News 28.08.2010)(Sdtirol Online
22.06.2011) 12. Windthrow events satellite data Rapideye 20112009
13. Automatic Change DetectionMask with damaged forest 14. Field
Work: Manipulative experiments to predict Climate Change
impactsgrassland transplantation and artificial sheltering 2000m
a.s.l. +3.3 K1500m a.s.l. to assess future water and energy
budget+3.3 K 1000m a.s.l. 15. Scales of MonitoringPlot
scaleLandscape scale Mountain range scale Upscaling Downscaling 16.
Tracking land-use change 17. Climate ChangeSpringSummerAutumnWinter
T incrase 2071-2100 (CLM A1B) 0 0.51 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.55 5.5 6C
18. Snow Cover from SatelliteBeginning of May 2012 19. Snow Cover
from SatelliteEnd of May 2012 20. Sustainability AnalysisEconomy
Society Environment 21. Other Mountains: Italian Mountains 22.
Other Mountains: Carpathians 23. EURAC outputs: ReportsReports on
regional ContributionAtlas Alpsclimate changeto
internationalReportsAtlas Carpathians Report Carpathians 24. EURAC
outputs: WebGis 25. Conclusion: A review of mountains demands for.
Bottom-up approaches (from local to mountain regions)
Interdisciplinary approaches A demand driven approach and
stakeholder involvement Regular updates Open access to the results
(WebGIS, Reports, ) Know-How Transfer and platforms for exchange
ofprofessional experiences 26. Thank you for your attention!
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