| Title | Retrospective analysis: a validation procedure for the redesign of an environmental monitoring network |
| Abstract | Monitoring networks are essential tools for the effective management of vulnerable or limited environmental resources. Cost and logistics constraints often suggest to reduce the number of monitoring sites while minimizing the loss of information determined by these changes. The problem can be rigorously addressed through the optimization of one or more objective functions that rep- resent the managerial goals associated to the network. However, the use of objective functions is based on assumptions that in practical cases can be inaccurate. To overcome this problem, we have developed a retrospective analysis procedure that validates the degree of acceptability of the optimal reduced configuration at a local and global level. The procedure has been applied to a case study in Apulia, Italy, finding that the optimal reduced network was unable to recover the measured values of the monitored parameter of two discarded locations, making it unable to accomplish its monitoring goals. |
| Source | Measurement (Lond., Print) 113, pp. 211–219 |
| Keywords | groundwater monitoringmonitoring network optimizationkrigingretrospective analysis |
| Journal | Measurement (Lond., Print) |
| Editor | Elsevier Science Publishers, London, Paesi Bassi |
| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.measurement.2017.08.014 |
| Authors | Emanuele Barca, Delia E. Bruno, Aimé Lay-Ekuakille, Sabino Maggi, Giuseppe Passarella |
| Text | 373772 2018 10.1016/j.measurement.2017.08.014 Scopus 2 s2.0 85027398567 ISI Web of Science WOS WOS 000411767300024 Science direct Elsevier S0263224117305122 groundwater monitoring monitoring network optimization kriging retrospective analysis Retrospective analysis a validation procedure for the redesign of an environmental monitoring network Emanuele Barca, Delia E. Bruno, Aime Lay Ekuakille, Sabino Maggi, Giuseppe Passarella CNR IRSA, Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque, 70132 Bari; Dipartimento di ingegneria dell Innovazione, Universita del Salento, 73100, Lecce; Monitoring networks are essential tools for the effective management of vulnerable or limited environmental resources. Cost and logistics constraints often suggest to reduce the number of monitoring sites while minimizing the loss of information determined by these changes. The problem can be rigorously addressed through the optimization of one or more objective functions that rep resent the managerial goals associated to the network. However, the use of objective functions is based on assumptions that in practical cases can be inaccurate. To overcome this problem, we have developed a retrospective analysis procedure that validates the degree of acceptability of the optimal reduced configuration at a local and global level. The procedure has been applied to a case study in Apulia, Italy, finding that the optimal reduced network was unable to recover the measured values of the monitored parameter of two discarded locations, making it unable to accomplish its monitoring goals. 113 Published version http //www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263224117305122 09/08/2017 Barca et al. Retrospective analysis A validation procedure for the redesign of an environmental monitoring network E. Barca, D. E. Bruno, A. Lay Ekuakille, S. Maggi, and G. Passarella, Retrospective analysis A validation procedure for the redesign of an environmental monitoring network , Measurement 113, pp. 211 219 2018 . MEAS D 17 00700.pdf Articolo in rivista Elsevier Science Publishers 0263 2241 Measurement Lond., Print Measurement Lond., Print Measurement Lond., Print Measurement. Lond., Print emanuele.barca BARCA EMANUELE deliaevelina.bruno BRUNO DELIA EVELINA giuseppe.passarella PASSARELLA GIUSEPPE sabino.maggi MAGGI SABINO TA.P04.005.008 Integrazione di metodologie per il monitoraggio e la modellizzazione per la gestione delle risorse idriche |
