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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-935-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-935-2020
Research article
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12 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 12 Mar 2020

Use of Sentinel-1 radar observations to evaluate snowmelt dynamics in alpine regions

Carlo Marin, Giacomo Bertoldi, Valentina Premier, Mattia Callegari, Christian Brida, Kerstin Hürkamp, Jochen Tschiersch, Marc Zebisch, and Claudia Notarnicola

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In this paper, we use for the first time the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) time series acquired by Sentinel-1 to monitor snowmelt dynamics in alpine regions. We found that the multitemporal SAR allows the identification of the three phases that characterize the melting process, i.e., moistening, ripening and runoff, in a spatial distributed way. We believe that the presented investigation could have relevant applications for monitoring and predicting the snowmelt progress over large regions.