Regional Hydromorphological Characterization

We collaborated in this new paper where a unique regional database of continuous hydromorphological variables (HyMo DB) based on areal and topographic data has been generated from RS analysis. In view of future RS acquisitions, this type of hydromorphological characterization will allow regional trends and patterns to be highlighted through time and river management strategies to thus be implemented at both regional and local scales.

Luca Demarchi, Simone Bizzi and Hervé Piégay, Regional hydromorphological characterization with continuous and automated remote sensing analysis based on VHR imagery and low-resolution LiDAR data  ESPL, Version of Record online: 29 JAN 2017 | DOI: 10.1002/esp.4092

Mekong Futures: Changes in Sediment/Nutrient Flux and Their Consequences

The 10th of December at U.C. Berkley Andrea Castelletti, Simone Bizzi and Rafel Schmitt will partecipate to workshop (WS), Mekong Futures: Changes in Sediment/Nutrient Flux and Their Consequences . The workshop is organized by Prof. Matt Kondolf, who invited researches  working on the Mekong delta over the last years.  This WS focus is on how the flux of sediment and nutrients through the river system to the Delta will be affected by planned dams and other changes, and how changes in these fluxes could affect rates of coastal erosion, changes in elevation of the delta surface, and long-term sustainability of the landform.  The WS aims at considering drivers at multiple scales, ranging from large-scale global sea level rise and changes in frequency of tropical cyclones over the basin, to changes in the regional sediment budget from new dams, down to local controls over groundwater pumping and channelization.