ALPMON FINAL REPORT - ARC systems research

Contract ENV4-CT96-0359 ALPMON
Furthermore, during the ALPMON project there has been scientific technology transfer from the
University of Freiburg to the local administrations in Tarvisio and Pontebba, Italy - Forest
Administration at Tarvisio, Tourist Administration at Tarvisio, Comunitá Montana at Pontebba.
3.1.4 Information of the Scientific Community
The project or some of its tasks have been presented to the scientific community at diverse national
and international conferences. The publications are listed in section 6.1.
3.1.5 Information of the Public
Article 4, paragraph 3 of the Alpine Convention stipulates that “the Contracting Parties shall ensure that
the public are regularly kept informed in an appropriate manner about the results of research,
monitoring and action taken”. This means that the dissemination of information should not be restricted
to the individuals immediately concerned, or public organisations and research institutions, but that the
media should be used to ensure that a wider section of the public, both within the alpine areas and
outside, will be appropriately informed. In order to optimally demonstrate the potential of remote
sensing it also is necessary to ensure that specified customers receive information about the results of
remote sensing applications. With this respect, information on the ALPMON project is provided by the
following information sources:
� CD-ROM presentation of the project:
A promotional CD-ROM will be delivered soon after the final report. This CD-ROM will give an
introduction of the ALPMON project. The results of classification will be stored as images with
additional describing text. The methods of the project can be read in the project reports which will
be delivered in digital format on the CD-ROM too.
The data on the CD-ROM can be accessed via a HTML interface with a common HTLM-browser.
� ALPMON homepage
� INFEO (CEO)
� Alpine CDS
� Customer workshop (see section 6.2).
The ALPMON project consortium is still negotiating with representatives of the Alpine Convention
concerning a final project workshop for presenting the project results to the European customer as well
as to other interested institutions. However, as the organisational structure of the Alpine Convention
has changed and no international co-ordination responsible exists any more, it is very difficult to find
the right frame for such a work shop. Nevertheless, this goal will be further followed.
3.2 Project Evaluation by the End Users
The project results of each application finally were evaluated by the national end users with respect to
the satisfaction of their requirements. The user of remote sensing data not only needs to know the
number of classifiable categories, but also reliable information about the accuracy of the classified
parameters. Such information formed the basis for assessing the quality of the applications developed
from remote sensing data. The product validation was carried out in close co-operation with the
customers according to the parameters set up in the requirement studies. The evaluation accompanied
the whole project duration and the final results were derived after repeated consultation of the
customers. All national customers (except the Avalanche and Hydrogeological Defence Experimental
Centre of Arabba) sent a short project evaluation letter which is attached to this report in Annex 9.
The discussion on the results with the Avalanche and Hydrogeological Defence Experimental Centre of
Arabba, which is the customer of the feasibility study on erosion risk in the Cordevole test site, can be
summarised into the following issues (Table 20):
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