SnowWatch: Snow Monitoring through Acquisition and Analysis of User-Generated Content

07/31/2015
by   Roman Fedorov, et al.
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We present a system for complementing snow phenomena monitoring with virtual measurements extracted from public visual content. The proposed system integrates an automatic acquisition and analysis of photographs and webcam images depicting Alpine mountains. In particular, the technical demonstration consists in a web portal that interfaces the whole system with the population. It acts as an entertaining photo-sharing social web site, acquiring at the same time visual content necessary for environmental monitoring.

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