ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
(objectives)
The course aims at enhancing the comprehension of natural environmental processes and at introducing major traditional and remote environmental sensing techniques. The course provides concepts and methodologies to address the monitoring of major environmental variables. The course aim is the knowledge of hydrological processes monitoring. Specifically, the course will focus on instrumentations and sensing techniques useful for observing environmental parameters.
It is possible to identify three main aims: Refresh of notions about hydrological processes and their modelling, with particular emphasis of river discharge and precipitations. Learning about instruments and sensing techniques for hydrological observations. Learning and applying innovative approaches based on image analysis.
Expected outcomes following the Dublin descriptors:
Knowledge and understanding. hydrological phenomena, specifically, rainfall and runoff formation. Common practice of data collection and measurements in hydrology.
Applying knowledge and understanding The concepts with a more technical and applicative implication (tools and approaches for the measurement and estimation of hydrological variables) will be consolidated through both traditional (exercises) and advanced (small experiments to be developed independently) practical labs.
Making judgements - Communication skills - Learning skills Students will be asked to develop a project that,in addition to provide a practical example for estimating river flow velocity, will allow them to investigate on the role of the image analysis. The project will be assigned without a rigid scheme, students will be invited to identify a scientific question on which they can investigate with the software application. During the project they will identify the answer to the scientific question and motivate their conclusions. Setting small groups and interacting with the lecturer will stimulate Making judgements - Communication skills - Learning skills under the hydrological perspective.
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Teacher
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TAURO Flavia
(syllabus)
- Introduction to fundamental hydro-meteorological processes and major environmental agents (precipitation, flow discharge, runoff flow velocity, infiltration, erosion); - Introduction to fundamentals of monitoring techniques for the environment; - Advanced techniques for environmental monitoring; - Remote sensing approaches; - Remote sensing from satellite, plane, and drone; - Image analysis for environmental monitoring; - Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) for environmental flows; - Laboratory experiments with traditional and remote sensing methodologies.
(reference books)
Slides and material will be made available online from the instructor.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 21/09/2020 to 22/12/2020 |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
At a distance
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
A project evaluation
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