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Multi-method monitoring of rockfall activity along the classic route up Mont Blanc (4809 m a.s.l.) to encourage adaptation by mountaineers / Jacques Mourey in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, vol 22 n° 2 (February 2022)  

Public [article]  inNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences > vol 22 n° 2 (February 2022) . - pp 445 - 460 Titre : Multi-method monitoring of rockfall activity along the classic route up Mont Blanc (4809 m a.s.l.) to encourage adaptation by mountaineers Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Jacques Mourey, Auteur ; Pascal Lacroix, Auteur ; Pierre-Allain Duvillard, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 445 - 460 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] capteur actif [Termes IGN] capteur non-imageur [Termes IGN] carte thématique [Termes IGN] détection de changement [Termes IGN] éboulement [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de terrain [Termes IGN] Mont-Blanc, massif du [Termes IGN] onde sismique [Termes IGN] pergélisol [Termes IGN] prévention des risques [Termes IGN] risque naturel [Termes IGN] saison [Termes IGN] sismologie [Termes IGN] surveillance géologique [Termes IGN] température de l'air Résumé : (auteur) There are on average 35 fatal mountaineering accidents per summer in France. On average, since 1990, 3.7 of them have occurred every summer in the Grand Couloir du Goûter, on the classic route up Mont Blanc (4809 m a.s.l.). Rockfall is one of the main factors that explain this high accident rate and contribute to making it one of the most accident-prone areas in the Alps for mountaineers. In this particular context, the objective of this study is to document the rockfall activity and its triggering factors in the Grand Couloir du Goûter in order to disseminate the results to mountaineers and favour their adaptation to the local rockfall hazard. Using a multi-method monitoring system (five seismic sensors, an automatic digital camera, three rock subsurface temperature sensors, a traffic sensor, a high-resolution topographical survey, two weather stations and a rain gauge), we acquired a continuous database on rockfalls during a period of 68 d in 2019 and some of their potential triggering factors (precipitation, ground and air temperatures, snow cover, frequentation by climbers). At the seasonal scale, our results confirm previous studies showing that rockfalls are most frequent during the snowmelt period in permafrost-affected rockwalls. Furthermore, the unprecedented time precision and completeness of our rockfall database at high elevation thanks to seismic sensors allowed us to investigate the factors triggering rockfalls. We found a clear correlation between rockfall frequency and air temperature, with a 2 h delay between peak air temperature and peak rockfall activity. A small number of rockfalls seem to be triggered by mountaineers. Our data set shows that climbers are not aware of the variations in rockfall frequency and/or cannot/will not adapt their behaviour to this hazard. These results should help to define an adaptation strategy for climbers. Therefore, we disseminated our results within the mountaineering community thanks to the full integration of our results into the management of the route by local actors. Knowledge built during this experiment has already been used for the definition and implementation of management measures for the attendance in summer 2020. Numéro de notice : A2022-181 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE/POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.5194/nhess-22-445-2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-445-2022 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99859 [article]

Seven decades of coastal change at Barter Island, Alaska: Exploring the importance of waves and temperature on erosion of coastal permafrost bluffs / Ann E. Gibbs in Remote sensing, vol 13 n° 21 (November-1 2021)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 13 n° 21 (November-1 2021) . - n° 4420 Titre : Seven decades of coastal change at Barter Island, Alaska: Exploring the importance of waves and temperature on erosion of coastal permafrost bluffs Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ann E. Gibbs, Auteur ; Li H. Erikson, Auteur ; Benjamin M. Jones, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 4420 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] Alaska (Etats-Unis) [Termes IGN] analyse diachronique [Termes IGN] Beaufort, mer de [Termes IGN] détection de changement [Termes IGN] données météorologiques [Termes IGN] ERA5 [Termes IGN] érosion côtière [Termes IGN] modèle météorologique [Termes IGN] pergélisol [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] température de l'air [Termes IGN] température de surface de la mer [Termes IGN] trait de côte [Termes IGN] vague Résumé : (auteur) Observational data of coastal change over much of the Arctic are limited largely due to its immensity, remoteness, harsh environment, and restricted periods of sunlight and ice-free conditions. Barter Island, Alaska, is one of the few locations where an extensive, observational dataset exists, which enables a detailed assessment of the trends and patterns of coastal change over decadal to annual time scales. Coastal bluff and shoreline positions were delineated from maps, aerial photographs, and satellite imagery acquired between 1947 and 2020, and at a nearly annual rate since 2004. Rates and patterns of shoreline and bluff change varied widely over the observational period. Shorelines showed a consistent trend of southerly erosion and westerly extension of the western termini of Barter Island and Bernard Spit, which has accelerated since at least 2000. The 3.2 km long stretch of ocean-exposed coastal permafrost bluffs retreated on average 114 m and at a maximum of 163 m at an average long-term rate (70 year) of 1.6 ± 0.1 m/yr. The long-term retreat rate was punctuated by individual years with retreat rates up to four times higher (6.6 ± 1.9 m/yr; 2012–2013) and both long-term (multidecadal) and short-term (annual to semiannual) rates showed a steady increase in retreat rates through time, with consistently high rates since 2015. A best-fit polynomial trend indicated acceleration in retreat rates that was independent of the large spatial and temporal variations observed on an annual basis. Rates and patterns of bluff retreat were correlated to incident wave energy and air and water temperatures. Wave energy was found to be the dominant driver of bluff retreat, followed by sea surface temperatures and warming air temperatures that are considered proxies for evaluating thermo-erosion and denudation. Normalized anomalies of cumulative wave energy, duration of open water, and air and sea temperature showed at least three distinct phases since 1979: a negative phase prior to 1987, a mixed phase between 1987 and the early to late 2000s, followed by a positive phase extending to 2020. The duration of the open-water season has tripled since 1979, increasing from approximately 40 to 140 days. Acceleration in retreat rates at Barter Island may be related to increases in both thermodenudation, associated with increasing air temperature, and the number of niche-forming and block-collapsing episodes associated with higher air and water temperature, more frequent storms, and longer ice-free conditions in the Beaufort Sea. Numéro de notice : A2021-822 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.3390/rs13214420 Date de publication en ligne : 04/11/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214420 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98936 [article]

Understanding the synergies of deep learning and data fusion of multispectral and panchromatic high resolution commercial satellite imagery for automated ice-wedge polygon detection / Chandi Witharana in ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, vol 170 (December 2020)  

Public [article]  inISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing > vol 170 (December 2020) . - pp 174-191 Titre : Understanding the synergies of deep learning and data fusion of multispectral and panchromatic high resolution commercial satellite imagery for automated ice-wedge polygon detection Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Chandi Witharana, Auteur ; Md Abul Ehsan Bhuiyan, Auteur ; Anna K. Liljedahl, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 174-191 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image optique [Termes IGN] algorithme de fusion [Termes IGN] apprentissage profond [Termes IGN] Arctique [Termes IGN] artefact [Termes IGN] classification par réseau neuronal convolutif [Termes IGN] détection automatique [Termes IGN] fusion d'images [Termes IGN] glace [Termes IGN] image à haute résolution [Termes IGN] pergélisol [Termes IGN] texture d'image Résumé : (Auteur) The utility of sheer volumes of very high spatial resolution (VHSR) commercial imagery in mapping the Arctic region is new and actively evolving. Commercial satellite sensors typically record image data in low-resolution multispectral (MS) and high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) mode. Spatial resolution is needed to accurately describe feature shapes and textural patterns, such as ice-wedge polygons (IWPs) that are rapidly transforming surface features due to degrading permafrost, while spectral resolution allows capturing of land-use and land-cover types. Data fusion, the process of combining PAN and MS images with complementary characteristics often serves as an integral component of remote sensing mapping workflows. The fusion process generates spectral and spatial artifacts that may affect the classification accuracies of subsequent automated image analysis algorithms, such as deep learning (DL) convolutional neural nets (CNN). We employed a detailed multidimensional assessment to understand the performances of an array of eight application-oriented data fusion algorithms when applied to VHSR image scenes for DLCNN-based mapping of ice-wedge polygons. Our findings revealed the scene dependency of data fusion algorithms and emphasized the need for careful selection of the proper algorithm. Results suggested that the fusion algorithms that preserve spatial character of original PAN imagery favor the DLCNN model performances. The choice of fusion approach needs to be considered of equal importance to the required training dataset for successful applications using DLCNN on VHRS imagery in order to enable an accurate mapping effort of permafrost thaw across the Arctic region. Numéro de notice : A2020-705 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.10.010 Date de publication en ligne : 01/11/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.10.010 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96232 [article]

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Deriving a frozen area fraction from Metop ASCAT backscatter based on Sentinel-1 / Helena Bergstedt in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 58 n° 9 (September 2020)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 58 n° 9 (September 2020) . - pp 6008 - 6019 Titre : Deriving a frozen area fraction from Metop ASCAT backscatter based on Sentinel-1 Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Helena Bergstedt, Auteur ; Annett Bartsch, Auteur ; Anton Neureiter, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 6008 - 6019 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] Autriche [Termes IGN] bande C [Termes IGN] courbe de Pearson [Termes IGN] dégel [Termes IGN] Finlande [Termes IGN] fonte des glaces [Termes IGN] hétérogénéité spatiale [Termes IGN] image MetOp-ASCAT [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes IGN] pergélisol [Termes IGN] rétrodiffusion [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] télédétection en hyperfréquence [Termes IGN] température au sol Résumé : (auteur) Surface state data derived from spaceborne microwave sensors with suitable temporal sampling are to date only available in low spatial resolution (25–50 km). Current approaches do not adequately resolve spatial heterogeneity in landscape-scale freeze–thaw processes. We propose to derive a frozen fraction instead of binary freeze–thaw information. This introduces the possibility to monitor the gradual freezing and thawing of complex landscapes. Frozen fractions were retrieved from Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT, C-band) backscatter on a 12.5-km grid for three sites in noncontinuous permafrost areas in northern Finland and the Austrian Alps. To calibrate the retrieval approach, frozen fractions based on Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR, C-band) were derived for all sites and compared to ASCAT backscatter. We found strong relationships for ASCAT backscatter with Sentinel-1 derived frozen fractions (Pearson correlations of −0.85 to −0.96) for the sites in northern Finland and less strong relationships for the Alpine site (Pearson correlations −0.579 and −0.611, including and excluding forested areas). Applying the derived linear relationships, predicted frozen fractions using ASCAT backscatter values showed root mean square error (RMSE) values between 7.26% and 16.87% when compared with Sentinel-1 frozen fractions. The validation of the Sentinel-1 derived freeze–thaw classifications showed high accuracy when compared to in situ near-surface soil temperature (84.7%–94%). Results are discussed with regard to landscape type, differences between spring and autumn, and gridding. This article serves as a proof of concept, showcasing the possibility to derive frozen fraction from coarse spatial resolution scatterometer time series to improve the representation of spatial heterogeneity in landscape-scale surface state. Numéro de notice : A2020-525 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2967364 Date de publication en ligne : 13/03/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2967364 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95702 [article]

Monitoring rock glaciers by combining photogrammetric and GNSS-based methods / Fabian Neyer (2017)  

Public Titre : Monitoring rock glaciers by combining photogrammetric and GNSS-based methods Type de document : Thèse/HDR Auteurs : Fabian Neyer, Auteur Editeur : Zurich : Schweizerischen Geodatischen Kommission / Commission Géodésique Suisse Année de publication : 2017 Autre Editeur : Zurich : Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule ETH - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich EPFZ Collection : Geodätisch-Geophysikalische Arbeiten in der Schweiz, ISSN 0257-1722 num. 99 Importance : 174 p. Format : 21 x 30 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-3-908440-45-1 Note générale : bibliographie thesis submitted to attain the degree of doctor of sciences of ETH Zurich Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications photogrammétriques [Termes IGN] Alpes centrales [Termes IGN] champ de vitesse [Termes IGN] collocation par moindres carrés [Termes IGN] déformation de la croute terrestre [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] glacier [Termes IGN] image terrestre [Termes IGN] matrice de covariance [Termes IGN] pergélisol [Termes IGN] reconstruction 3D [Termes IGN] rocher [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] Suisse Index. décimale : 33.60 Applications photogrammétriques - usage combiné de la photogrammétrie et de la lasergrammétrie Résumé : (auteur) Rock glaciers are creeping landforms of perennially frozen ground and belong to the permafrost creeping phenomena. They are mainly composed of rock debris that accumulate in areas of high natural erosion. Ice particles between the rocks cause the moving accumulation in steep terrain to dynamically flow downslope. In the Alpine region, these morphological landforms mainly occur at north-facing mountain slopes in high altitudes above the forest boundary and are known for their sensitivity to climate change. For several decades, rock glaciers have been monitored for scientific aims, while advances in surveying technologies increased the interest in such studies since the 1990s. Modern technologies in remote sensing (e.g., airborne imagery or satellite-based measurement techniques) are often combined with measurements from field campaigns, i.e., measurements taken directly on a rock glacier (e.g., GNSS, laser-scanning, ground temperature measurements, etc). The high-level goal is to enhance the process understanding, especially with respect to the changing climate: various studies indicate an extended risk of slope failures in steep frozen bedrock due to the global temperature increase. Early recognition of increased activities help to inform local authorities in the endangered areas about the potential hazard before such an event. The present work is part of the X-Sense project (Nano-Tera.ch), with an interdisciplinary team of scientists that build and operate new low-cost devices for data acquisition, develop new data processing pipelines and algorithms for evaluation, and also gain new insight of natural processes in these regions. Autonomous measurement systems, developed within other work packages in the X-Sense project, observe different permafrost creep areas with high resolution in space and time. Combined with multi-year observations, the derived surface motions are used to obtain an improved process understanding. This work focuses on the photogrammetric image processing in order to retrieve precise surface displacement estimates. More precisely, image sequences, acquired with two permanently installed commercial digital single-reflex cameras, are used to measure topographic changes in the observed permafrost area. By the combination with high resolution GNSS positioning results, the goal is to obtain precise time series of moving rock boulders at different positions within the field of view. Challenges arising from the combination of different data sets, the development of an automatic processing pipeline, and an improvement of the processing strategy in general, are the main tasks of this thesis. The study site is the bordering area above the Grabengufer rock glacier (Mattervalley VS, Switzerland), known as the Grabengufer rock slide. Local topographic conditions allowed only a partially good installation geometry for the photogrammetric reconstruction. With respect to a 3D reconstruction without the use of GNSS coordinates, an accuracy increase of about one order of magnitude could be achieved in case these high-precision solutions were integrated. More specifically, respective standard deviations for the East, North, and Height components of 6, 5, and 2 cm were achieved. The stated accuracy, maintained throughout the measurement period of nearly four years (summer months), was obtained in an area of approximately 80m×80 m, with a mean distance of 80 m from the two cameras. Position time series of moving rock boulders were filtered using the principles of collocation. Analyzing the correlation characteristics of the stochastic signal, an optimal correlation length was computed and used to extract relevant signals from the noise contaminated time series. Velocity was directly estimated as a derived quantity in the collocation process. Furthermore, the techniques of the adaptive collocation approach is presented. This iterative method uses the principles of a dynamically adjusting anisotropic covariance metric. In an example of 2-dimensional velocity fields it is shown that regional compression and extension areas can be extracted. Results indicate that the observed permafrost area has experienced a mean annual acceleration of about 0.1m/Year between the years 2013 and 2015. During the late summer months of 2015, a prominent temporal acceleration was observed. The mean displacement rate was found to be 0.67m/year, whereas the 3-dimensional displacement is dominated by a translation following the gliding surface. An area in the front of the observed field of view was found to have higher displacement rates, especially during the late summer months, thus it detaches from the otherwise relatively homogeneous flow field. The methods and principles presented in this work show the potential of monitoring permafrost surface displacements using permanently installed optical cameras in combination with positioning results from permanently mounted GNSS stations. These principles can easily be transfered to other monitoring applications and thus contribute to a better understanding of such processes. Note de contenu : 1 Introduction 2 Study Site 3 Image-Based Displacement Estimation 4 Object Point Reconstruction 5 Collocation for Time Series Analysis 6 Results 7 Conclusions 8 Outlook Numéro de notice : 17458 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Autre URL associée : https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-010865360 Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Thèse étrangère Note de thèse : thèse : Sciences : ETHZ : 2016 DOI : 10.3929/ethz-a-010865360 En ligne : https://www.sgc.ethz.ch/sgc-volumes/sgk-99.pdf Format de la ressource électronique : URL Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89683

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Modelling flow routing in permafrost landscapes with TWI: an evaluation against site-specific wetness measurements / A. Persson in Transactions in GIS, vol 16 n° 5 (October 2012)  

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Hangrutschungskartierung mittels Radar Interferometrie / U. Wegmuller in Géomatique suisse, vol 110 n° 9 (01/09/2012)

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Quantification des éboulements/écroulements dans les parois à permafrost de haute montagne : Quatre années de relevés laser terrestres dans le massif du Mont-Blanc / L. Ravanel in Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection, n° 192 (Septembre 2010)

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Detecting and quantifying mountain permafrost creep from in situ inventory, space-borne radar interferometry and airborne digital photogrammetry / Tazio Strozzi in International Journal of Remote Sensing IJRS, vol 25 n° 15 (August 2004)  

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Modelling permafrost temperature response to variations in meteorological data / F. Caline (2000)

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Traité de glaciologie, 2. Tome 2, Glaciers, variations du climat, sols gelés / Louis Lliboutry (1965)

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