Valentina Premier
Valentina Premier received in 2022 her Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy, within the Remote Sensing Laboratory and with Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy, within the Institute for Earth Observation. Previously, she held a Master's in Environmental Engineering in 2016. Her activities focus on snow cover and snow water equivalent retrieval using remote sensing data. She is currently involved in different projects of the group for Mountain Cryosphere, such as SNOWCOP, Snowtinel and Open Earth Monitor.
Sessions
Snow monitoring plays a crucial role in the effective management of water resources. The increasing availability of remote sensing data offers significant advantages but also introduces challenges related to data accessibility, processing, and storage. Leveraging a cloud-based platform such as the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) offers an efficient solution by enabling data processing directly where the data are stored. Specificaaly, our workflows are built using the openEO API, providing a standardized interface for accessing and processing large Earth observation datasets.
In this practical session, we will demonstrate fundamental yet powerful applications for snow monitoring. Participants will explore examples including snow cover classification using state-of-the-art and advanced machine learning techniques, wet snow detection, and snow albedo estimation. The exercises will highlight how various sensors and methods can be exploited to achieve desired outputs. By the end of the workshop, attendees will gain hands-on experience with openEO tools and understand how cloud-based infrastructures can streamline large-scale environmental data processing.