Research Area
Active Research fields
The research activities focus on the management of water resources under crisis, urban drainage, remote sensing and geographic information systems for hydraulic construction, hydraulic modeling to define flooded areas, issues related to the urban water service under scarcity. Finally, in more recent times he is working at the resilience of urban areas under flooding risk.
Research projects of the last 5 years
SistEma informativo integrato per l’acquisizione, geStione e condivisione di dati AMbientali per il supportO alle decisioni - SESAMO - PO FESR 2007/2013 Linea di intervento 4.1.1.1.
MEDIWAT, miglioramento della gestione delle risorse idriche nelle isole del Mediterraneo - Dipartimento Regionale Acque e Rifiuti - Osservatorio Acque -
Aquaknight - AQUA KNowledge and Innovation transfer for water savinG in tHe mediTerranean basin - Programma ENPI-CBCMED
SMARTWATERTECH - Bando MIUR "Idee progettuali per Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation"
Recupero di Acqua ed energia dispersa nel cicLo idrico integrAto. SalvaguarDia ambientale tramite Innovazione, moNitoraggio, ottimizzazione. ALADIN - PO FESR 2007/2013 Linea di intervento 4.1.1.1.
“MITO - Informazioni Multimediali per Oggetti Territoriali” - Avviso MIUR D.D. n. 274 del 15 febbraio 2013
Studi applicativi e ricerche volti all'organizzazione ed aggiornamento del reticolo idrografico - Dipartimento regionale dell’acqua e dei rifiuti. Servizio osservatorio delle acque.
Studi e ricerche in sinergia volti alla realizzazione del sistema informativo idromorfologico - Dipartimento regionale dell’acqua e dei rifiuti. Servizio osservatorio delle acque.
Collaborations
Prof. Cedo Maksimovic - Imperial College - London
Prof. Geroge Tsakiris - NTUA - Athens
Prof. Vincenzo La Penna - IMAA - CNR Potenza
Prof. Erkan Istanbulluoglu - University of Washington- Seattle
Prof. Armando Brath - Università di Bologna
Active research
Rainfall measuring systems, discharge measurement facilities.
Meter test bench
40 m flume to test maritime applications
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The Group of Hydraulic, Maritime and Hydrology of DICAM promotes research and educational activities as part of the typical themes of hydraulic infrastructures, maritime construction and hydrology, as well as in the field of hydrological and environmental applications of remote sensing and GIS.
Are addressed, using new paradigms, classical topics of Hydraulic Engineering as urban drainage systems and water supply systems, the hydraulic operation is also analyzed in the aspects of reliability and robustness design using operational research methods, statistics , environmental economics, risk analysis and cost-benefit analysis.
With reference to the research activities in the field of Hydrology, the Group deals with modeling of physically based distributed data and hydrological processes, ecohydrology, the statistical analysis of climatic variables, the time-series analysis and the uncertainty analysis modeling. The research also includes issues related to land protection as the analysis of hydrological extremes, assessment and mitigation of flood risk and its mapping, introducing also the aspects related to the analysis and development of resilience with particular reference to the anthropic environments.
The Group is also characterized by a strong experimental activities in the open field with reference to the measurement of hydrodynamic quantities in water bodies and the continuous monitoring of weather-climatic variables.
Finally the Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (MEDILAB) lead researches related to environmental monitoring using remote sensing data from satellite, airborne and proximity platforms. Spatial analysis techniques in GIS with applications in hydrological, agricultural and hydrological (precision farming, precision irrigation) and environmental one are also developed, as well as the modeling of integrated environmental processes into GIS systems.