Conveners
Methods: Methods
- Michael Eineder
Every year, millions of people around the world are affected by natural and man-made disasters. To respond quickly and effectively, emergency responders and relief organizations need timely, comprehensive and accurate information about the extent of hazards, exposed assets and damage. For decades, emergency mapping has used remotely sensed data to support rescue operations. However, providing...
Global changes encompass human-driven alterations to the Earth system. These changes include increasing urbanisation and the frequent increase of exposure and vulnerability with respect to natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, or flood events. Existing models often allow solely a very coarse estimation of risks as they rely on either highly aggregated or outdated input data. This...
Remote sensing and earth observation (EO) data has long been used outside of academia in the agriculture and forestry sectors for monitoring and forecasting activities. The last 5 years has also seen important financial sectors such as environmental liability insurance and environmental regulatory compliance adopt remote sensing data into their workflows. This is pushing remote sensing and EO...
In November 2022 three airglow instruments, two SWIR-cameras (FAIM) and one SWIR-spectrometer (GRIPS) were deployed at Cerro Paranal (70.4°W, 24.6°S) in the Atacama Desert, Chile nearby ESO's (European Southern Observatory) Very Large Telescope (VLT) as part of the project OASIS (Observations of Airglow with Spectrometer and Imager Systems). The instruments observe hydroxyl (OH) airglow...
The GNSS radio occultation (RO) technique uses GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) signals received aboard low Earth orbiting satellites for atmospheric limb sounding.
Refractivity and temperature profiles are derived with high vertical resolution. Due to its long-term stability, all-weather capability, and global coverage the GNSS RO technique offers the possibility for global...
