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

The DAFNE project is meeting the stakeholders in Zambia

The DAFNE project, which was launched the last October, is running the first stakeholder meeting  in Lusaka, Zambia. Andrea Ca., Enrico, Marco and Federica will be involved in two intense days of workshops and interactions with more than twenty stakeholders from the Zambezi river basin including the Minister of Water Development, Sanitation and Environmental Protection, ZAMCOM, SADAC and many other key actoers. The objective of the meeting is to engage stalekdeors,  identify the key hotsposts in the basin and to start collecting data.

Rodolfo Soncini Sessa interview on Science

To be a responsible researcher, reach out and listen. Science magazine has recently interviewed Rodolfo Soncini Sessa on the Responsbile Research and Innovation (RRI) framework we adopted for the IMRR project on the Red River in Vietnam. This comes after the project was awarded an EFARRI award for RRI. Read the full article here.

The NRMGroup won the EFARRI award

We won the EFARRI award with the IMRR project. The IMRR project developed and promoted strategies for the sustainable and participatory management of water resources in the Red-Thai Binh River (RTBR) system, the largest river basin in Vietnam. The EFARRI call was launched on September 14th 2015. In total 214 projects were submitted before December 8th 2015. Between December 2015 and March 2016 four pre-selection rounds took place to reduce the amount of applications from 214 to 15. Eventually the IMRR project was chosen as one of them and on November 21st was announced as one of the three winners of the EFARRI award.

More information available here.