17 projects found
Prediction of Rainfall-INduced landslides – Improving multi-scale TerritoriAL Early warning through aRTificial intelligence
From 28/09/2023 to 27/09/2025
Project 202248MN7N_PE10_PRIN2022 – PNRR M4.C2.1.1 – Funded by European Union – Next Generation EU – CUP: B53D23006720006 Background Predicting the occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides is a crucial task for…
SaTellite based Runoff Evaluation And Mapping
Space agency From 01/04/2019 to 31/03/2020
Background Water is at the centre of economic and social development; it is vital to maintain health, grow food, manage the environment, and create jobs. As well over half of…
Sistema di Allertamento Nazionale per la previsione del possibile innesco di fenomeni Franosi indotti da piogge lungo l’infrastruttura ferroviaria di RFI
National From 26/02/2018 to 20/02/2021
Background SANF-RFI is a landslide early warning system along the RFI national railway Infrastructure. The system forecasts the possible occurrence of landslides by comparing rainfall measurements and forecasts with empirical…
A new independent GLOBAL rainfall product from ASCAT soil moisture observations through SM2RAIN
Space agency From 01/11/2017 to 30/06/2019
Background Accurate rainfall estimates are of paramount importance as rainfall plays a key-role in many fields as, to cite a few, natural hazard assessment (floods and landslides), drought management, weather…
SMOS+RAINFALL II
Space agency From 29/03/2018 to 29/03/2019
Background Quantitative information about precipitation is one vital input to meteorologists, hydrologic scientists, water resources managers, and environmental legislators. The past SMOS+Rainfall project addressed the improvement on a global scale…
Cooperative Internet-of-Data Rural/Alpine Community Environment
Regional From 03/11/2014 to 31/12/2019
Background Environmental sensor monitoring is continuously developing, both in terms of quantity (i.e. measurement sites), and quality (i.e. technological innovation). Environmental monitoring is carried out by either public or private…
Landslide Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Preparedness and Early Warning in South Asia Integrating Meteorology, Landscape and Society
International From 01/11/2016 to 31/10/2020
Background In India, as in many other areas in Asia and in the world, landslides are abundant and frequent, and they represent a serious hazard to the local population. The…
STSE Water Cycle Multi-mission Observation Strategy for the Mediterranean
Space agency From 01/09/2015 to 30/08/2017
Background Monitoring the water cycle from satellite observations is one of the major goals of the EO community and closing the water budget has been a long-standing objective of international…
SMOS+RAINFALL
Space agency From 31/07/2015 to 30/06/2017
Background Quantitative information about precipitation is one vital input to meteorologists, hydrologic scientists, water resources managers, and environmental legislators. Yet, accurate measurement of precipitation over the relevant space and time…
H-SAF AS: Integration of PR-OBS-5 and SM-OBS-1 products through SM2RAIN algorithm for improving rainfall estimate
Space agency From 16/06/2015 to 16/12/2015
Background State-of-the-art satellite rainfall products are often the only way for measuring rainfall in remote areas of the world. However, these products may fail in properly reproducing the amount of…
37 YEARS OF SOIL MOISUTRE DERIVED RAINFALL: application of SM2RAIN to the CCI soil moisture product, algorithm improvement and product validation
Space agency From 15/05/2015 to 14/11/2016
Background Recently, IRPI-CNR has developed an innovative approach for estimating rainfall from satellite soil moisture data, named SM2RAIN. The ESA funded project “Climate Change Initiative – Soil Moisture“ (CCI-SM) offers…
EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management
Space agency From 16/09/2005 to 31/03/2022
Background The H-SAF generates and archives high-quality data sets and products for operational hydrological applications starting from the acquisition and processing of data from Earth observation satellites in geostationary and…
H-SAF and GPM: precipitation algorithm development and validation activity
Space agency From 01/07/2014 to 31/12/2019
Background The proposal intends to contribute towards the establishment of a long-term partnership between the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF, or Hydrology…
Rainfall thresholds for the possible initiation of rainfall-induced landslides in Apulia
Regional From 24/02/2014 to 31/05/2015
Background In Italy rainfall are among the main causes of trigger of shallow landslides, that yearly cause fatalities, damage, and severe economic losses. Identification of the amount of rainfall needed…
Time-Space prediction of high impact landslides under changing precipitation regimes
From 14/01/2012 to 31/01/2016
Background In Italy a significant increase of landslide frequency and intensity in the last decades has been occurred, whose impact must be evaluated with respect to the convergence in possible…