Seyedeh Faezeh Sajjadi
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Snow and Vegetation Dynamics Using Copernicus Sentinel-2 Imagery in the Maritime Alps.
Rel. Francesca Matrone, Fabio Giulio Tonolo. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Per L'Ambiente E Il Territorio, 2025
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Abstract
The research examines how vegetation and snow cover patterns change over time and space within the Maritime Alps (Western Italian Alps) which serves as a climate change and ecological transition hotspot. The research utilizes Sentinel-2 Level-2A multispectral imagery which underwent processing through two cloud-based Earth Observation (EO) platforms known as Google Earth Engine (GEE) and Sentinel Hub to track environmental changes from 2018 to 2024. Vegetation phenology and snow persistence were assessed using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI). A dual-threshold approach was applied: fixed thresholds (NDVI = 0.30, NDSI = 0.42) enabled temporal consistency, while adaptive Otsu thresholding addressed scene-specific spectral variability and topographic effects that typically reduce classification accuracy.
The validation process used four reference datasets which consisted of CORINE Land Cover 2018 and LUCAS 2022 and Carta degli Habitat and Copernicus Fractional Snow Cover (FSC) with their corresponding spatial scales and thematic precision levels
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