Torben Dedring won second place in the Young Scientist Award at the 42nd European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) Symposium with his presentation on sequential change detection of land slides using radar imagery from the European Sentinel-1 satellite.

The presented methodology is a component of Dr. Valerie Graw's research on remote sensing detection and evaluation of land slides and their underlying variables along the Coca River in Ecuador. The erosional features studied there resulted from the collapse of the San Raffael Waterfall, causing damage to surrounding infrastructure and threatening national energy supplies. Together with local partners, the team is looking for suitable methods to record the spatio-temporal changes. The dynamics of the erosion processes could be well captured by sequential change detection using radar imagery independent of time of day and weather and is part of a previously published study.