The Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE) is a government-owned multidisciplinary research institute and one of Norway's largest independent research organizations. NORCE conducts basic and applied research in areas like climate, environment, energy, technology, and social science, utilizing expertise in satellite data processing, signal processing, and machine learning. NORCE collaborates with organizations like the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The research center is involved in projects such as Earth observation, monitoring glaciers, and developing technology to monitor space debris.
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Markus Eckerstorfer developed the NORCE data processing chain for automated avalanche detection from Sentinel-1 SAR data.
ESA provided funding in 2018 for a test of the NORCE Sentinel-1 avalanche detection method in Colorado in partnership with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
An avalanche forecasting center in Idaho and another in Montana are using a rudimentary version of NORCE’s automated Sentinel-1 avalanche detection led by Zach Keskinen, a snow science master’s candidate at Montana State University.