ALPMON FINAL REPORT - ARC systems research

Contract ENV4-CT96-0359 ALPMON
A first customer workshops has been held on February 4-5, 1999 at the Austrian Institute for
Avalanche and Torrent Research, Innsbruck. The goal of this workshop was, firstly, to bring all
customers of the project (on European as well as on national level) together. As the interests of some
customers strongly overlap, discussion on the needs as well as the approaches envisaged between
these customers and the project team were essential. Secondly, the actual project results were
presented to the customers and discussed. Finally, a discussion on the applications between the
customers affected by the respective topic and the project team took place and the further work was
co-ordinated. The workshop on one hand served for exchange of experiences and co-ordination
among the customers. On the other hand it was used for preparation of the project applications in
close co-operation between customers and the project team. Mr. Schaffhauser from the Institute of
Avalanche and Torrent Research at Innsbruck (national customer) kindly offered to host this workshop
at Innsbruck.
6.2.1 ALU
A customer workshop for the forest and tourism administration of Tarvisio was held in October 1999.
The results of the tourism application were presented (as available at this date) and maps derived from
classification of remote sensing data were given to the administration in analogue and digital format.
In the second part of the meeting the methods and results were discussed by the audience which
consisted not only of members of the administrations but also in a lot of members of the universities of
Bologna and Trieste.
The customers were very satisfied with the results of the project and will try to envisage some more
projects in a partnership with ALU.
6.2.2 LMU
The customer on national level of the partner LMU, Institute for Land Use Planning and Nature
Conservation is the Bavarian State Institute for Water Resources Management (LfW). Since the kick-off
meeting in Graz at Joanneum three more potential customers announced their interest on ALPMON
investigations and results:
� The Bavarian State Geologic Survey (Bayerische Geologische Landesanstalt, GLA)
� The Bavarian State Forest Research Center (Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forsten, LWF)
� Sections for Redevelopment of Barrier Woodland (Funktionsstellen Schutzwaldsanierung) of the
Bavarian State Forest Administration.
During the proposal preparation phase all these institutions were asked for co-operation. Due to the fact,
that there are no established working groups dealing with remote sensing at these institutions, the
administrative act to prepare and deliver a letter of interest took more time than expected. In the
meantime ALPMON was already in the working stage and the working plans were more or less fixed. On
the other hand, looking forward to the final goals of ALPMON, we had a vital interest to co-operate with
each of the above mentioned administrations. All of them have been identified as potential customers of
remote sensing derived information and have expressed their interest in ALPMON results and
methodology. For these new customers no requirement study has been undertaken. In this situation we
agreed on an informal co-operation.
The following meetings have been held since the beginning of ALPMON on the 1st of June 1997:
11.07.97; 10.00 – 12.00 h: meting at the Bavarian State Forest Research Center (Bayerische
Landesanstalt für Wald und Forsten, LWF) Dr. R. Mößmer, A. Troyke, R. Blaschke, Prof. U. Ammer, R.
deKok, A. Buck. Discussion of the synergy between the projects ALPS, funded by the German DARA and
the ALPMON activities. Agreement of an close co-operation.
24.11.97, 14.00 – 16.30h, meeting at the Bavarian State Institute for Water Resources Management
(LfW) in Munich. Participants Dr. K. Martin, SLU (subcontractor), Dr. M. Becker, Dr. T. Molnar, Dr. Th.
Schneider. The topic of the meeting was the establishment of the parameter as well as of the accuracy
requirements for running ASG.
08.12.97, 9.00 – 11.30 h: meeting at the Bavarian State Geologic Survey (Bayerische Geologische
Landesanstalt, GLA), Dr. Frank, Dr. Th. Schneider: discussion of the informal contact with the GeoRisc
working group.
JR, RSDE, ALU, LMU, Seibersdorf, WSL 100