AWARE (A tool for monitoring and forecasting Available WAter REsource in mountain environment) has been funded with the contribution of the European Commission - Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry - under the Sixth Framework Programme. The project, started in July 2005, has been concluded in June 2008. In AWARE the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) of CNR co-ordinated a team of hydrologists, remote sensing specialists and information system analysts ...

I Campi Flegrei sono una area vulcanica attiva che si estende ad ovest della città di Napoli e caratterizzata da intensi fenomeni deformativi (bradisismo), con forti variazioni del livello del suolo sia in abbassamento, sia in sollevamento (questi ultimi spesso accompagnati da terremoti). Dopo la crisi degli anni ottanta, la zona era entrata in una lunga fase di subsidenza interrotta prima da un episodio di risalita nel 2000 (circa 5 centimetri in un anno). I dati satellitari, elaborati dai ...

In its research activity IREA produces an amount of data related to geographic areas that are observed through time: from snow cover to the extension of glaciers on Alps, from pollution in pre-Alpine lakes to burned areas in Italian natural parks. Such geographic information is often the result of research projects performed in collaboration with organisations responsible for land management (public administrations, government departments, local environmental agencies, etc.), for which it ...

The increasing awareness of the impact of human activities on the Earth system has lead some authors to introduce a new term for the present geological era, calling it "the Anthropocene Era". The dimension, the spatial and temporal scale of changes due to human activity is unique in the human history. Biomass burning from vegetation fire is one of the major disturbances of natural terrestrial ecosystems: from boreal forests to temperate zones, from tropical savannas to equatorial ...

In the last years the problem of the non invasive monitoring of the environment have gained a great attention and in particular the diagnostic techniques based on fiber optic sensors play an important role. In fact, these sensors have small dimension, low cost, are immune to electromagnetic interference, are suitable for large scale monitoring networks, and are chemically and mechanically compatible with many materials. However, a typical fiber optic sensor permits only a local measurement of ...

The scientific results here presented derive from the use of an integrated remote sensing system to monitor the quality of surface water resources, manly linked to ecosystems that are stressed by human impacts and exploitations, such as lakes, estuarine areas, lagoons and coastal zones. The research started to support the calibration/validation needs of remote sensing observations, with a further development toward the necessity to monitor the eutrophication processes within the routinely ...

The notable population and urban growth of last decades has determined the necessity to provide for a detailed monitoring program of urban zones in the geologic and environmental field; in such a context deformation monitoring represents a very critical problem. The particularity of this kind of area and the sensitivity of the context has induced to the development of detective methods as little as possible invading, in alternative to the classical geodetic methodology that has a direct contact ...