Several nature based and climate adaptive solutions have been proposed to improve cities resilience the effects of global warming restore natural processes in strongly anthropized areas. Green roofs are among most efficient address recurrent urban challenges, such as pluvial floods heat islands. Various benefits offered by green rather known, their capacity enhance buildings thermal insulation; also favor biodiversity, improving aesthetic value human well being. Multilayer (MGRs) with an...

Biodiversity loss is a growing threat to natural ecosystems, driven by combination of anthropogenic and factors (e.g., urbanization, deforestation, and, notably, climate change). Such can alter wildfire regimes, with the possible consequent creation more available space for establishment invasive alien species. These, often highly adaptable rapid growth capabilities, profoundly local disrupt hydrological processes, reduce native biodiversity.Among most concerning species, Ailanthus altissima...

Image-based techniques have gained significant attention for monitoring natural and artificial rivers, thanks to their many advantages over traditional methods. These non-intrusive highly-versatile optical approaches provide accurate flow discharge measurements, even in challenging conditions like flood events, while ensuring the safety of both operators equipment. However, accuracy measurements is affected by several factors, including environmental conditions, river characteristics, field...

Green roofs are climate-adaptive measures able to address many urban challenges like heat islands, water scarcity, floodings, pollution and biodiversity loss. Recently, the "blue-green roof" variant has gained attention for its enhanced functionality, since, incorporating a high-capacity storage layer, they can retain significant amount of rainwater. This last be gradually released, reducing stress on drainage during heavy storms, sustain passive irrigation provide greywater reuse. Modelling...

Collecting vast amount of data and performing complex calculations to feed modern Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) algorithms require centralize intelligence into some the most powerful energy resource hungry supercomputers in world. This is due chaotic nature atmosphere which interpretation virtually unlimited computing storage resources. With Machine Learning (ML) techniques, a statistical approach can be designed order perform weather forecasting activity. Moreover, recently growing...

Recent advances in image-based methods for environmental monitoring are opening new frontiers remote streamflow measurements natural environments. Such techniques offer numerous advantages compared to traditional approaches. Despite the wide availability of cost-effective devices and software image processing, these still rarely systematically implemented practical applications, probably due lack consistent operational protocols both phases images acquisition processing. In this work,...

River flow monitoring has recently experienced rapid development due to advancements in optical methods, which are non-intrusive and enhance safety conditions for operators. Surface velocity fields obtained recording analyzing displacements of floating tracer materials, artificially introduced or already present on the water surface. discharge can be assessed coupling surface with geometric data a cross section. The accuracy techniques is strongly affected by different environmental...

Abstract The speeding growth of the IT market and spreading disruptive technologies are leading towards more risky operations in need constant upkeep, monitoring as well proactive orchestration. On one hand, property allowing a system to be catered by automated healing technology is defined observability . other appropriate design principles manifest were originally referred event sourcing its inventor Martin Fowler warrant for aforementioned sustainable software operations. Both complex...

Plant species diversity is fundamental for the stability and resilience of ecosystems, well-being entire planet. Healthy diverse ecosystems also contribute to air water pollution removal, climate regulation flood prevention. In last century, plant biodiversity has been facing severe threats, such as habitat destruction fragmentation due increasing urbanization, deforestation, agricultural expansion, wildfires, pollution. addition, changes in pose significant threats plants conservation...

<p>The development of new image-based techniques is allowing a radical change in the environmental monitoring field. The fundamental characteristics these methods are related to possibility obtaining non-intrusive measurements even adverse circumstances, such as high flow conditions, which may seriously threaten operators’ safety conditions traditional approaches.</p><p>Optical techniques, based on acquisition, analysis and elaboration...

<p>Technological advances over last decades gave an innovative impulse to development of new streamflow measurements techniques, making possible implement remote flow monitoring methods that allow for non-intrusive measurements. Here, we focus on image-based techniques involve the use digital camera, either installed a bridge or equipped by drone (UAVs – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). The most widely known and used optical are Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry...

<p>Over the last decades, we have been witnessing an increasing frequency of urban floods often attributed to interaction between intensification rainfall extremes due climate change and urbanization. Consequently, many studies trying propose different new alternatives mitigate ground effects ever more frequent severe extreme events in a context growing urbanization, such as rain gardens, green roofs, permeable parking lots, etc., which are commonly referred...

<p>In recent years, technological advances have been observed in environmental monitoring field, leading to a rapid spread of innovative technologies overcoming many historical challenges. In river field the use image-based techniques provides non-intrusive measurements ensuring best safety conditions for operators. The most used optical methods are Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) and Tracking (LSPTV).</p><p>In LSPIV LSPTV floating...