The MOXXI Working Group, in collaboration with ESSI1 and under the co-sponsorship of IAHS – International Association of Hydrological Sciences, is convening a PICO session on:
🔹“Innovative Technologies in Hydrological Monitoring” at #EGU26 in Vienna, Austria.
Convener: Salvatore Manfreda
Co-conveners: Stergia Palli-Gravani, Khim Cathleen Saddi, Konstantinos Soulis, Nick van de Giesen
From image-based and AI-driven methods to citizen science and remote sensing, this session explores how emerging technologies are transforming the way we monitor and understand hydrological processes.
📘Topics include (but are not limited to):
• Disruptive and Innovative sensors and technologies in hydrology
• Advancing opportunistic sensing strategies
• Automated and semi-automated methods.
• Extraction and processing of water quality and river health parameters (e.g., turbidity, plastic transport, water depth, flow velocity).
• New approaches to long-term river monitoring (e.g., citizen science, camera systems—RGB/multispectral/hyperspectral, sensors, image processing, machine learning, data fusion).
• Innovative citizen science and crowd-based methods for monitoring hydrological extremes.
• Novel strategies to enhance the detail and accuracy of observations in remote areas or specific contexts.
📢 Call for abstracts is now open!
Don’t miss a chance to connect with scientists advancing hydrological monitoring and join the discussion on how to scale these innovations to larger applications.
🔗 Submit your abstract here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/session/56435#
📍 EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria & Online
#MOXXI #IAHS #Innovation #PICOSession #WaterScience #FieldHydrology #HydrologicalMonitoring
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He is Full Professor of Hydrology and Hydraulic Constructions at the University of Naples Federico II. He is currently chair of the IAHS MOXXI working group. His research primarily centers on hydrological modeling and monitoring. Recognizing the challenges posed by the complexity and limitations of traditional hydrological observations, he actively explores advanced and alternative monitoring techniques, such as the utilization of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) coupled with image processing.