150 projects found
Sino-Italian Joint Laboratory on Geological and Hydrological Hazards
International From 01/01/2017 to 31/12/2019
Background Both China and Italy are characterized by large mountainous areas, where natural hazards (e.g., geological and hydrological hazards such as debris flows, landsides, flash floods) are widespread and seriously…
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…
Hazard of alluvial fans
Regional From 01/07/2009 to 31/07/2010
Background In international literature, it is now widely recognized that alluvial fans are areas of high geomorphic activity. Debris flows and flash floods occur episodically in these environments, and place…
Identification and estimation of the parameters for assessing the risk of desertification
National From 01/05/2004 to 30/09/2007
Background The Calabria region, because of its climatic, geomorphological and anthropic characteristics, is one of the regions most exposed to the risk of desertification in the Mediterranean basin. Methods already…
Methodology for the estimation of environmental risk indicators, using satellite remote sensing techniques
Regional From 01/06/2008 to 31/01/2009
Background EPSILON Italia, the leader of the partnership proposing the project, is a SME, located in Calabria, specializing in the delivery of advanced services for the protection and management of…
Dikes and Debris Flows Monitoring by Novel Optical Fiber Sensors
European From 01/05/2016 to 30/04/2019
Background With more than 5 million people affected, more than 1000 killed, and with estimated total damages exceeding 4.5 billion Euros just in Europe and during the last decade, floods…
RiST project: Scientific and Technological research in the Bessanese glacial basin (Balme, NW Italian Alps)
Local From 08/01/2016 to 08/01/2018
Background The Alpine environment, and in particular the high-altitude one, is responding quickly and with great intensity to climate change, through evidences of geomorphological, hydrological and ecological type. Mountain glacier…
SLOPES
International From 01/03/2016 to 30/06/2017
Background This project is embedded within the framework of the three Ny-Ålesund flagships: ‘Kongsfjorden system’, ‘Glaciology’ and ‘Terrestrial system’. The study of slopes and landscape modifications under a changing climate,…
Sentinel for Geohazards regional monitoring and forecasting
European From 01/01/2016 to 31/12/2017
Purpose SAFETY aims at providing Civil Protection Authorities with the capability of periodically evaluating and assessing the potential impact of geohazards (volcanic activity, landslides and subsidence) on urban areas. 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…
Multi Scale and Multi Hazard MApping Space Solutions
Space agency From 09/04/2015 to 19/09/2017
Background The exploitation of innovative methods of SAR and optical data processing, combined to the use of ancillary data, is able to provide useful products for the landslide and seismic…
Use of SMAP soil moisture products for operational flood forecasting: data assimilation and antecedent wetness conditions assessment
Space agency From 01/04/2015 to 31/12/2019
Background The project aims at using Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) soil moisture (SM) products at different spatial resolution (3, 9, and 36 km) for hydrological applications in Europe…