Open Data Day (ODD) is an annual celebration of open data all over the world  (https://opendataday.org/).

On March 4th, 2024, as the Laboratory of Geodetic and Photogrammetric Measurements (LabMGF) of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA, Politecnico di Milano), we organized a webinar Mapping Climate Change in 4D: Belvedere Glacier’s Open Geo Data for Education and Research. 

The webinar introduced the geospatial open data of the Belvedere Glacier (Italian Alps) with UAV and aerial photogrammetry during the long-term monitoring campaign carried out by the DICA department, in collaboration with the DIIATI department of Politecnico di Torino and Alta Scuola Politecnica. The event was focused on promoting the utilization of the open data acquired on the Belvedere Glacier acquired by our research laboratory and accessible on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7842347).

Here you can find a report of the event with some pics:

#ODDStories 2024 @ Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

Event slides and data

You can find the event slides and the data used during the hands-on session here open_data_day_2024.

The data used in the practical session is derived from a subsample of open data available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7842347).

Sponsorship

The event was sponsored by the Open Knowledge Foundation thanks to the Open Data Day 2024 Mini Grants

And the winners of the Open Data Day 2024 Mini-Grants are. . .

Event Agenda:

Module 1: Introduction (Duration: Approximately 1 hour):

  • Overview of the Belvedere Glacier monitoring and research project
  • Presentation of the innovative teaching experience of the Summer School “Design and Implementation of Topographic Surveys for Territorial Monitoring in Mountain Environments” for BSc and MSc students and carried out at the Belvedere Glacier since 2016.
  • Preparation of results of the long-term monitoring campaign of the Belvedere Glacier and of the open data publicly available in the Zenodo repository

Module 2: Hands-on workshop (Duration: Approximately 1.5 hours)

  • Practical focus for students and those interested in working with open data
  • DTM and Point cloud processing tutorials using open-source software: QGIS and CloudCompare

Webinar Slides and video recordings

Video recording and slides: open_data_day_2024