Projects
1. Title: Agro-Hydro-Environmental Monitoring and Alert Unit
General description: The working group that will contribute and develop the tasks related to the Agro-Hydro-Environmental Monitoring and Alert Unit belongs to the Chair of Land Management and the Center for Territorial Studies (CET), both belonging to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the UNR, together with which the CONICET's Institute for Research in Agrarian Sciences of Rosario (IICAR) works in an integrated manner. This subproject adds to this personal proposal from the Chair of Agricultural Climatology, which complements the capacities in terms of the creation of climate databases and the running of simulation models that serve as input to more advanced hydrological models. In this context, the UMAAHA proposal is part of the need to strengthen relevant environmental data capture systems, together with the development of systems and/or models that produce information in real time to act in conjunctural contingencies (alert systems ), in the same way that they serve to build and/or strengthen databases that allow for the recognition of dynamic phenomena that are supposed to be highly changeable based on their high sensitivity to anthropic impact. The UMAAHA aims to dynamically collect precise environmental data and from them prepare basic and applied information on the different climatic, meteorological and agronomic components linked to hydraulic and hydrological dynamics, and that impact on agricultural production systems, infrastructures, the environment, health and the quality of life of society, in the multiplicity of scales that these interactions take place. The fundamental pillars of this Unit involve the installation of an agrometeorological station and an agrohydrological station, both automated, together with the data ingestion, georeferencing and database management systems, and the editing and publication via the Web by the information generated. Another component of the UMAAHA are sediment drag test plots and precise geopositioning instruments to characterize and adjust land use in real time, in order to parameterize its incidence in the zonal hydrological cycle. To this base, it is intended to add some greater facilities for the pre-treatment of environmental samples, together with the formation of a semi-permanent technical team that is ready to attend territorial situations that require it. In recent times, the need for various state powers and/or public and civil society institutions to resort to the Public University in order to resolve controversial situations related to the environment and the sustainability of certain anthropic activities has appeared more frequently. This demand deserves to be met with appropriate operating structures.
2. Title: Dynamic survey of precise environmental data on climatic, meteorological and agronomic components.
General description: Currently, remote sensing is considered a reliable alternative to map and evaluate burned areas, since it allows a systematic observation of the entire surface and offers spectral information sensitive to the discrimination of the affected sector compared to the one that is not. In the same way, in the moments after the fire event and through multispectral analysis of the affected sector, remote sensing is also capable of offering precise information about the recovery conditions of the vegetation in the affected sector. This is important in order to be able to quantify the existing ecosystem resilience and/or the level of impact that the fire has had.
very abbreviated methodology
Optical satellite images of the highest spatial resolution available (eg SPOT, CBERS or PlanetScope) will then be used and will be used in parallel with geoprocessing of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images from the Sentinel 1 A/B satellite. The monitoring methodology will eventually be completed with validations carried out using high-resolution images captured by drones and in situ.
Related
Director: Sergio Montico
Co-Director: Nestor Di Leo
Related: José Berardi, Verónica Anibalini, Josefina Scaglione, Marina Santinelli, Julia Gastaudo, Federico Ascolani and Juliana Santi.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (UNR)