| Title | Optimal Redesign of Groundwater Monitoring Networks: a Data-Driven Multi-Approach Software |
| Abstract | Within recent WFD and the modification introduced into national water related legislation, monitoring assumes great importance in the frame of territorial managerial activities. Recently, a number of public environmental agencies invested resources in planning improvements on existing monitoring networks. A lot of reasons justify the optimal redesign of a monitoring network. In fact, a modest or sparse coverage of the monitored area or redundancies and clustering of monitoring locations often make impossible to provide the manager with a sufficient knowledge for decision-making processes. These are typical cases requiring an optimal redesign of the whole network; particular emphasis shall be devoted to quality groundwater monitoring network. Using reliable stochastic or deterministic methods, it is possible to rearrange the existing network by eliminating, adding or moving monitoring locations producing the most uniform arrangement among any possible. In this paper, some spatial optimization methods have been selected as more effective among those reported in literature and implemented in a software able to carry out a complete redesign of an existing monitoring network. Both stochastic and deterministic methods have been embedded in the software with the option of choosing, case by case, the most suitable with regard to the available information. Finally, an application to the existing regional groundwater level monitoring network of the aquifer of Tavoliere located in Apulia (South Italy) is presented. |
| Source | 8th International Conference of EWRA - Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context, Porto, Portugal, 26th-29th June 2013 |
| Keywords | Monitoring network redesignoptimization methodsspatial simulated annealingupsizedownsize and relocation |
| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Contributo in atti di convegno |
| Authors | Emanuele BARCA, Giuseppe PASSARELLA, Michele VURRO, Alberto MOREA |
| Text | 260539 2013 Monitoring network redesign optimization methods spatial simulated annealing upsize downsize and relocation Optimal Redesign of Groundwater Monitoring Networks a Data Driven Multi Approach Software Emanuele BARCA, Giuseppe PASSARELLA, Michele VURRO, Alberto MOREA Emanuele BARCA , Giuseppe PASSARELLA , Michele VURRO , Alberto MOREA Water Research Institute National Research Council, CNR IRSA, Italy, emanuele.barca@ba.irsa.cnr.it Dept. of Physics University of Bari, Italy Within recent WFD and the modification introduced into national water related legislation, monitoring assumes great importance in the frame of territorial managerial activities. Recently, a number of public environmental agencies invested resources in planning improvements on existing monitoring networks. A lot of reasons justify the optimal redesign of a monitoring network. In fact, a modest or sparse coverage of the monitored area or redundancies and clustering of monitoring locations often make impossible to provide the manager with a sufficient knowledge for decision making processes. These are typical cases requiring an optimal redesign of the whole network; particular emphasis shall be devoted to quality groundwater monitoring network. Using reliable stochastic or deterministic methods, it is possible to rearrange the existing network by eliminating, adding or moving monitoring locations producing the most uniform arrangement among any possible. In this paper, some spatial optimization methods have been selected as more effective among those reported in literature and implemented in a software able to carry out a complete redesign of an existing monitoring network. Both stochastic and deterministic methods have been embedded in the software with the option of choosing, case by case, the most suitable with regard to the available information. Finally, an application to the existing regional groundwater level monitoring network of the aquifer of Tavoliere located in Apulia South Italy is presented. Rodrigo Maia, Antonio Guerreiro de Brito, Abilio Seca Teixeira, Jose Tentugal Valente, João Pedro Pego 978 989 95557 8 5 http //www.ewra2013.ewra.net/index.htm 8th International Conference of EWRA Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context Porto, Portugal 26th 29th June 2013 Internazionale Contributo Optimal Redesign of Groundwater Monitoring Networks a Data Driven Multi Approach Software File PDF, estratto dai proceedings of 8th International Conference of EWRA Water Resources Management in an Interdisciplinary and Changing Context, Porto, Portugal, 26th 29th June 2013. 2013_EWRA.pdf Contributo in atti di convegno giuseppe.passarella PASSARELLA GIUSEPPE emanuele.barca BARCA EMANUELE michele.vurro VURRO MICHELE TA.P04.005.008 Integrazione di metodologie per il monitoraggio e la modellizzazione per la gestione delle risorse idriche |
