Giordan Daniele, Allasia Paolo, Dematteis Niccolò, Dell'Anese Federico, Vagliasindi Marco, Motta Elena
GeoHazard Monitoring Group-Institute of Research for the Geo-Hydrological Protection-National Council of Research of Italy, 10135 Turin, Italy.
Fondazione Montagna Sicura, 11013 Courmayeur, Italy.
Sensors (Basel). 2016 Oct 21;16(10):1750. doi: 10.3390/s16101750.
In this work, we present the results of a low-cost optical monitoring station designed for monitoring the kinematics of glaciers in an Alpine environment. We developed a complete hardware/software data acquisition and processing chain that automatically acquires, stores and co-registers images. The system was installed in September 2013 to monitor the evolution of the Planpincieux glacier, within the open-air laboratory of the Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc massif (NW Italy), and collected data with an hourly frequency. The acquisition equipment consists of a high-resolution DSLR camera operating in the visible band. The data are processed with a Pixel Offset algorithm based on normalized cross-correlation, to estimate the deformation of the observed glacier. We propose a method for the pixel-to-metric conversion and present the results of the projection on the mean slope of the glacier. The method performances are compared with measurements obtained by GB-SAR, and exhibit good agreement. The system provides good support for the analysis of the glacier evolution and allows the creation of daily displacement maps.
在这项工作中,我们展示了一个低成本光学监测站的成果,该监测站旨在监测阿尔卑斯环境中冰川的运动学。我们开发了一个完整的硬件/软件数据采集和处理链,可自动采集、存储并配准图像。该系统于2013年9月安装,用于监测勃朗峰地块(意大利西北部)大乔拉斯露天实验室范围内的普兰皮谢冰川的演变,并以每小时一次的频率收集数据。采集设备包括一台在可见光波段工作的高分辨率数码单反相机。数据采用基于归一化互相关的像素偏移算法进行处理,以估计观测冰川的变形。我们提出了一种像素到度量的转换方法,并展示了在冰川平均坡度上的投影结果。将该方法的性能与地面干涉合成孔径雷达(GB-SAR)获得的测量结果进行了比较,结果显示出良好的一致性。该系统为冰川演变分析提供了良好的支持,并允许创建每日位移图。