Item: Mysnowmaps: operative high-resolution real-time snow mapping
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Title: Mysnowmaps: operative high-resolution real-time snow mapping
Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings 2018, Innsbruck, Austria
Authors:
- Matteo Dall’Amico [ MobyGIS Srl, Via Guardini 24 Trento, Italy ]
- Stefano Endrizzi [ Independent, Mezzolombardo, Trento, Italy ]
- Stefano Tasin [ MobyGIS Srl, Via Guardini 24 Trento, Italy ]
Date: 2018-10-07
Abstract: Snow plays a crucial role in the Alps for many human activities, like winter tourism, hydropower and water table recharge. At the same time, during extreme meteo conditions (heavy snowfall or rapid snow melt), snow may become an issue for safety and needs to be particularly observed by civil protection to manage snow related hazards (avalanches, flood or traffic jam on the roads). At the same time, snow tourism in the last years has experienced a big increase in off-piste explorers that are interested in snow presence in open terrain. The avalanche bulletin contains a rough estimate of snow presence, based on the data collected in specific points of interest, but is not continuous in space and not convenient to use on a map. The attempt monitor snow evolution and display snow information in a convenient way has evolved in the creation of Mysnowmaps (www.mysnowmaps.com). At our knowledge it represents the first web and app platform displaying snow depth on a daily basis all over the Alps. Furthermore, the app is designed to involve the users in crowdsourcing snow measurements, thus helping to increase the snow dataset. Mysnowmaps may be considered as an operative snow monitoring system, continuous in time and space, that could help to manage snow related activities and anticipate possible hazardous situations.
Object ID: ISSW2018_O04.7.pdf
Language of Article: English
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Keywords: snow monitoring, snow crowdsourcing, physically based modeling.
Page Number(s): 328-332
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