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1 Polar and Snow Cover: cross-cutting needs Polar and Snow Cover Applications Users Requirements Workshop Breydel building, Brussels Dr. Sebastian d Oleire-Oltmanns Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS University of Salzburg Salzburg, Austria

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5 Education Outreach Research groups Applied research Fundamental research

6 Applied research

7 Multiscale networking

8 Total Scientific employees n/a!

9 Application domains Permafrost Floating Ice Snow Ice sheets, Ice gaps, glaciers

10 Different foci Sea ice mass balance and mass variability Ice sheet, ice caps and glacier mass balance contribution to sea level Freshwater budget closure at high latitudes (snow and permafrost impact on polar hydrological cycle) Circumpolar changes in permafrost and terrestrial biosphere (consequences for carbon and hydrological cycles) Polar atmospheric products to facilitate improved NWP (numerical wheather prediction) Cryospheric forcing of atmospheric chemistry in polar atmosphere (surface/troposphere, and troposphere/stratosphere coupling) Ecosystem response to cryospheric variability and change Identifying opportunities for new integrated applications of polar satellite data in response to emerging socio-economic issues Source: PSTG Strategic Plan

11 Resolution & availability Spatial: resolution, covered areas Temporal: coverage, revisit rate Radiometric: calibration of data Data type: optical, SAR, LiDAR(?), combinations Validation of products: e.g. UAV-based remote sensing

12 Ground-based validation Lack of reference data pan-alpine snow simulation/prediction model Pilot study conducted by Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS in cooperation with ZAMG

13 Data acquisition 1st field trip d Oleire-Oltmanns 2016 Iancu 2016

14 Data acquisition 1st field trip Weyss 2016 Iancu 2016

15 Data acquisition 3rd field trip d Oleire-Oltmanns 2016 d Oleire-Oltmanns 2016

16 03/10/2016 UAV-based monitoring of snow cover d Oleire-Oltmanns

17 18/05/2016 UAV-based monitoring of snow cover d Oleire-Oltmanns

18 ndsm Validation points UAV-based monitoring of snow cover d Oleire-Oltmanns

19 UAV-based monitoring of snow cover First results (work in progress) 1.4 nddem/ground Truth nddem/ground Truth Linear (nddem/ground Truth) 0.4 R² = ~ Deviation on height values ~±7cm d Oleire-Oltmanns

20 Acknowledgement Funding for this pilot study has been granted by Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) All rights for usage of shown data and figures are with Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG)

21 Conclusion and outlook Inclusion of users absolutely necessary and beneficial Similar issues across different disciplines Ongoing initiatives already identified several aspects Validation of products to be continued (UAV-based)

22 Polar and Snow Cover: cross-cutting needs Thank you for your attention! Dr. Sebastian d Oleire-Oltmanns Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS sebastian.doleire-oltmanns@sbg.ac.at d Oleire-Oltmanns 2016

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