World Water Day 2023
The world is facing a water crisis, with rising demand, diminishing resources, and the impacts of climate change exacerbating the situation. On World Water Day 2023, we are bringing together experts…
Use of Drones for Environmental Monitoring
The book “Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring Soil, Vegetation, and Riverine Environments” is the result of five years of intense activities carried out within the context of the COST Action…
The Theoretical Probability Distribution of Peak Outflows of Small Detention Dams
The functional relationship between detention dam inflows and outflows was derived in a closed form in a recent work, which led to a theoretically derived probability distribution (TDD) of the…
Operations Manual for the Use of UAS in Environmental Studies (based on SORA 2.0)
This set of three documents represents a blueprint of an Operations Manual for UAS operations (OM) targeting environmental studies, accompanied by an Emergency Response Plan (ERP) and an example of UAS operation description and…
Webinar – Drones in Geographical Applications
Do not miss the Webinar organised by Drones MDPI on Drones in Geographical Applications!!! Webinar will be coordinated by George P. Petropoulos and it will include the following talks: Unmanned Aerial Systems for Monitoring…
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Dear Friend and Colleagues, Recent years have been filled with numerous and intense collaborations and relevant achievements. As we come to the end of the year, we wanted to take…
Detection of Surface Water and Floods with Multispectral Satellites
The use of multispectral satellite imagery for water monitoring is a fast and cost-effective method that can benefit from the growing availability of medium–high-resolution and free remote sensing data. Since…
Special Issue “Integrating Remote Sensing and Geospatial Big Data for Soil Moisture Estimation”
Dear Colleagues, Soil Moisture (SM) is a vital element in the hydrological cycle and land–atmosphere interactions. Quantification of SM and its spatiotemporal variability is valuable for understanding water availability in…
Satellite flood detection integrating hydrogeomorphic and spectral indices
Satellite remote sensing is a highly valuable data source useful in the monitoring of surface water dynamics and an essential tool in flood risk management although several factors can interfere…
Monitoring Water Turbidity Using Remote Sensing Techniques
In the present work, the use of optical cameras for turbidity measurements is tested on the Bode River in Germany, which is one of the best-instrumented catchments in Central Germany…
Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using a Deep Neural Network Model: The Case Study of Southern Italy
This study suggests a rapid methodology to delineate areas prone to flood using machine learning techniques. Based on available historically flooded areas, the model employs and combines globally collectible and…
Optimization of Flood Detention Basins Design
The design of hydraulic structures needs to account for a trade-off between implementation costs and flood damages, as well as for the impacts on basins hydrological responses over a wide…
Call for Papers
We are promoting a Special Issue on River Monitoring with the aim to provide an overview of the most advanced research activities in this field. The aim of the present…
VIdeo StabilisatION for image velocimetry analysis in rivers
VISION is open-source software written in MATLAB for video stabilisation using automatic features detection. It can be applied for any use, but it has been developed mainly for image velocimetry…
Stochastic Analysis of the Marginal and Dependence Structure of Streamflows: From Fine-Scale Records to Multi-Centennial Paleoclimatic Reconstructions
The identification of the second-order dependence structure of streamflow has been one of the oldest challenges in hydrological sciences, dating back to the pioneering work of H.E Hurst on the…