156 projects found
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…
Experimental Hydrological Database for Apennine Basins
National From 07/01/2014 to 20/12/2016
Background The main activities of the project, developed in the context of the program Nextdata funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), are: collection, organization and…
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…
ESA Climate Change Initiative Soil Moisture
Space agency From 01/01/2012 to 31/12/2017
Background The CCI Programme wants to contribute to the data bases collecting ECVs required by GCOS (Global Climate Observing System) and other international parties. In particular, the Soil Moisture CCI…
Investigation of the Montaguto Landslide
National From 01/04/2010 to 31/12/2017
Background In the spring of 2006, a large failure started moving in the Montaguto municipality, Campania, southern Italy, 40 km ENE of Benevento and 35 km SW of Foggia. The…
Advanced Environment Monitoring System (SMAT) – F2
Regional From 01/01/2013 to 31/10/2015
Background The environment monitoring has several purposes, including the prevention of geo-hydrogeological risks, forest fires, or prevention and suppression of illegal activities. The SMAT-F2 main objective is to define, design…
Monitoraggio del Rischio da Frane con tecnologie EO
National From 30/11/2008 to 30/11/2010
Background Le frane sono eventi del tutto naturali nell’evoluzione di un territorio, in particolare in Italia. Esse pongono un problema e diventano un pericolo allorché interagiscono con l’uomo e l’ambiente…
Land cover change detection and monitoring methodologies based on the combined use of S1 and S2 for natural resources and hazard management
Space agency From 27/10/2014 to 26/10/2016
Background ESA Sentinels missions will provide enhanced capabilities in the revisit frequency, and the coverage. Their complete exploitation is in the combination of the two to advantage of a further…
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…
Innovative technologies at high environmental sustainability in the forest-based sector
National From 01/07/2014 to 31/12/2016
Background Millennium Ecosystems Assessment (ONU). Intergovernmental Convention on Climate and European Convention on the Protection of Forests. Integration of ground and remote technologies for Earth Observation and development of multi-resolution…