Understanding the local impacts of climate change on alpine geosystems is vital. While commonly used methods provide information on long-term changes, current day interactions between individual events (e.g. precipitation and rock fall) cannot be monitored in a timely manner with high spatial resolution. But exactly this information would be necessary to enhance our understanding of these complex environments as reaction to climate change. To overcome this gap, terrestrial images appear promising. With the widespread availability of smartphones, their inbuilt sensors and no required specialized knowledge, images acquired by citizens pose the potential to close the spatial and temporal gap currently present in the monitoring of alpine geosystems.

Hence, the overall objective of the project is to integrate terrestrial images acquired by citizens into spatial analysis with other sources to bridge this gap. With the help of these images it will become possible to link individual measurements (e.g. precipitation) to individual observations (e.g. rock fall) which will allow the quantification of changes within the interaction of alpine geosystems related to climate change. To achieve this, the recorded camera parameters (e.g. position, orientation) have to be corrected. Assuming an increasing amount of images provided by citizens, (semi)-automatic methods have to be developed. Furthermore, provided images possess much more potential for communication then displaying them as markers on a map. Hence, new innovative ways of incorporating recorded images into the engagement and interaction with citizens will be investigated.