
NAME:
SOWI - Aula
BUILDING:
SOWI
FLOOR:
0
TYPE:
Assembly Hall
CAPACITY:
450
ACCESS:
Only Participants
EQUIPMENT:
Beamer, PC, WLAN (Eduroam), Overhead, Flipchart, Blackboard, Sound System, Handicapped Accessible, Microphones, Light Installation
During the 2025 Blatten glacier collapse, approximately 10 million cubic meters of rock and ice flowed into the Lötschental, covering large parts of the village Blatten and damming the Lonza river. Using oblique imagery collected through the BAFU/swisstopo Rapid Mapping program, a digital elevation model (DEM) was derived in Agisoft Metashape. This enabled the creation of a 3D visualization that was published to Sketchfab to show the extent of the event to the general public. Additionally, by comparing the DEM to existing LiDAR elevation data from swisstopo, the thickness of the deposit and volume gains/losses could be estimated independently from numbers provided by local authorities.

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