ALPMON FINAL REPORT - ARC systems research

Contract ENV4-CT96-0359 ALPMON
� Erosion risk assessment
� National park management and research.
Another application task was to aggregate the parameters classified in ALPMON to the CORINE land
cover nomenclature in order to make both data sets compatible. With the previous work packages an
advanced basis has been established, thus, enabling proper application in the test sites according to
the customers needs. The feasibility studies are described in summary in the following. A detailed
description of these applications is given in the report on WP12.
2.3.1 Remote Sensing and Tourism, Tarvisio Test Site (ALU)
2.3.1.1 Introduction and Objectives
The Department of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems at the University of Freiburg
is working together with the Forest Administration and the Tourist Administration of Tarvisio, Italy. The
test site is located in the upper most of Italy on the border to Austria and Slovenia and covers an area
of about 46 000 ha, around the main valley Val Canale.
In this region most of the people are interested in promoting tourism. Investments in new hotels, new
infrastructure for downhill skiing, new streets and railways were made and will be made in near future.
The area around Tarvisio is also applying for the winter Olympic games. Therefore it is to be expected
that the construction of buildings and the opening to tourism will be even more intensified and following
to that the pressure on nature will increase.
For the Forest Administration the topics of interest are mainly "land cover" (classification results of the
satellite data) and the analysis of the landscape with regard to suitable habitats for the ibex that has
been reintroduced in this area some years ago. This information is also required by the Tourism
Administration. Besides the subject areas publicity and tourist information, also landscape modification,
infrastructure analyses are of interest. On these subjects - advertising, presentation (and tourist
information), landscape modification and sensitivity of fauna and flora - it should be tested how remote
sensing data can be used.
In the field of tourist information and publicity the processed remote sensing data can help potential
tourists to get acquainted with the beauty and uniqueness of the landscape in this region. They can
simplify the interactive planning of their stay and their activities in the landscape. The attractiveness of
a region can be represented in this way, what may have positive effects on the support of tourism. For
this purpose, the following items were developed: production of thematic maps; visualisation of the
landscape with the aid of digital data in realistic 3D-views; development of a landscape-related
information-system for tourists.
The use of remote sensing for these tasks is very various. Not only classification results were needed
but a fusion image that is able to represent the complexity and, at the same time, the beauty of the
landscape. The single requirements and the differing use of remote sensing for them is described in
the following chapters.
2.3.1.2 User Requirements
Since the Department of Remote Sensing and LIS at the University of Freiburg has more than one
customer the requirements will be presented according to the single customer.
During the project a new customer was interested in the work of ALPMON. The Comunità Montana at
Pontebba, Italy, was very interested in the landscape monitoring that was one of the requirements of
the tourism branch. Therefore, a new customer is considered in the following list of the requirements.
Tourism Administration
� information: ideas for a tourist information system (hiking)
� publicity / advertising
� analyse landscape:
- land cover classification
- monitoring of landscape changes
- information about sensitivity of landscape - as example 'potential habitats for the alpine ibex - a
systems analysis
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