S. Ullo, C. Angelino, L. Cicala, N. Fiscante, P. Addabbo, M. P. Del Rosso, A. Sebastianeiii
{"title":"SAR interferometry with open Sentinel-1 data for environmental measurements: The case of Ischia earthquake","authors":"S. Ullo, C. Angelino, L. Cicala, N. Fiscante, P. Addabbo, M. P. Del Rosso, A. Sebastianeiii","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385270","url":null,"abstract":"This study rely on open access data as well as open software, both provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Copernicus program. In particular, data from Sentinel-1 radar satellite mission and SNAP software have been used. The availability of such data and software is relevant for public institutions that can produce valuable information at almost no charge. Main aim of the authors has been to produce a review paper, a kind of tutorial, where main characteristics of Sentinel-1 data and SNAP processing tools are presented and discussed. It's important to underline that SNAP is not an easy tool and needs a deep knowledge of electromagnetic aspects to result into reliable results. Together with Sentinel-1 data, interferometry techniques have been employed to get from phase difference information a measure of ground displacements. The Ischia island has been chosen as Case Study because it was affected by a severe earthquake in August 2017. In the days following the earthquake, the area was subject to many topographic surveys. Some of them, carried out by CNR-IREA researchers [1], working in collaboration with INGV, have used DInSAR technique applied to Sentinel-1 and COSMO-SkyMed images, showing a lowering of the soil around the epicenter up to 4 cm [2], [3]. These data have been used in our processing for comparison and validation as explained later in the paper.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125390738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Ullo, Mariano Gallo, G. Palmieri, Pietro Amenta, M. Russo, Giuseppe Romano, M. Ferrucci, Antonella Ferrara, M. Angelis
{"title":"Application of wireless sensor networks to environmental monitoring for sustainable mobility","authors":"S. Ullo, Mariano Gallo, G. Palmieri, Pietro Amenta, M. Russo, Giuseppe Romano, M. Ferrucci, Antonella Ferrara, M. Angelis","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385263","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a project idea for an innovative public transport system that may contribute to increase sustainable mobility and reduce the environmental impacts of transports. The proposed system is based on the use of low-emission small vehicles following flexible routes, which will be adapted in real time so to satisfy the customer requests, considering traffic congestion and availability of other transport services. The user will require the ride through a mobile application, which gives his/her location, and the system will provide the service considering all users' requests, vehicle availability, intermodal opportunities and traffic congestion. To implement this system, it is crucial to have real-time information on vehicle positions, other public transit supply, traffic and environmental conditions. Therefore, a distributed sensor network monitoring the environment is a fundamental component of the project. This paper focuses on the monitoring system that should be implemented so to obtain all real-time information necessary to guarantee a sustainable mobility in accordance with the project objectives. In particular, a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) will be used to gather real-time traffic and environmental data to build descriptive and predictive models to plan the best routes in order to reduce road congestion and consequently urban pollution. The paper is developed in the context of the NETCHIP research project, which has been submitted to Italian PNR 2015-2020, Call n. 1735 of the 13th July 2017.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129355722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. T. Falconi, F. Marzano, M. Montopoli, L. Baldini
{"title":"Interpretation of weather radar returns from single and distributed scatterers","authors":"M. T. Falconi, F. Marzano, M. Montopoli, L. Baldini","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385264","url":null,"abstract":"An analysis of backscattering radar echoes from single and distributed scatterers is illustrated. Ground-based weather radars are briefly described to understand how they measure precipitation. Meteorological targets (such as rain, snow and ice) are described as volume-distributed scatterers by separating them from other scatterers (mountains and man-made targets). A theoretical study follows to explain the relation between the radar equation in meteorology and the single target radar equation. Experimental measurements are then shown in this work: clear air data to validate radar equation for single scatterers and precipitation data to validate radar equation in meteorology. Results are shown using a C-band weather radar located in Rome (Italy) and managed by ISAC CNR. The analysis can be useful for future studies aiming at characterize ground-clutter returns both for classification and calibration purposes. A useful expression of the equivalent radar cross section from the equivalent reflectivity factor is also proposed.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126097103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends and paradigms in the development of miniaturized sensors for environmental monitoring","authors":"M. Carminati","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385259","url":null,"abstract":"Sensors, being the interface between the physical world and the information processing domain, are fostering the affirmation and consolidation of Internet-of-Everything scenarios. Among different application areas, urban and rural environmental monitoring poses peculiar and demanding challenges, here discussed. The principal design paradigms for the deployment of environmental sensors in pervasive wireless networks are reviewed. Miniaturization, monolithic integration, robustness, reliability, self-diagnostics, energetic autonomy and data fusion are among the prominent trends. These aspects are highlighted in three recent sample projects, where innovative impedance-based sensors are proposed, spanning from air quality mapping to oceans and drinking water monitoring.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115559079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Canu, B. Galvis, R. Morales, Omar Ramírez, M. Madelin
{"title":"Understanding the Shinyei PPD24NS low-cost dust sensor","authors":"Michael Canu, B. Galvis, R. Morales, Omar Ramírez, M. Madelin","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385268","url":null,"abstract":"Air quality measurement is a topic of a great interest for any country due to health and environmental reasons. Tis issue is more critical in low-incomes countries since the air quality is generally worse than in developed countries and the governments give fewer budget to lead environmental policy and research. This explains the increasing demand for low-cost dust optical sensors like the Shinyei PPD24NS during the last years. However, those sensors present mixed results in terms of precision and repeatability, especially in case of new applications like the ones in moving context. Moreover, few or confuse information exists on those sensors functioning and conditions of use and the manufacturer does not provide any comprehensive guideline. The present article aims at filling this gap, providing a real study of the internal sensor operating. This includes: a detailed, theoretical and practical, analysis of the electric diagram, a characterization of the airflow through the optical chamber, an output behavior analysis based on particulate matter concentration and some algorithmic issues guideline. The article ends by providing useful tips and recommendations as well as some tracks to improve its precision for new applications.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124134174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ummenhofer, C. Schwark, C. Kress, S. Mechlers, N. Denecke, A. Rohr, M. Fredebohm, M. Koch, A. Friedmann
{"title":"Practical investigation of using passive radar for structural health monitoring of wind farms","authors":"M. Ummenhofer, C. Schwark, C. Kress, S. Mechlers, N. Denecke, A. Rohr, M. Fredebohm, M. Koch, A. Friedmann","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385257","url":null,"abstract":"In order to keep total life time costs of wind turbines competitive, the risk of failure has to be minimized, maintenance costs have to be reduced and energy efficiency needs to be increased. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to install efficient automated multi-sensor online monitoring and diagnose systems, so-called condition monitoring systems (CMS). The economic importance of these CMS systems has been increasingly recognized by wind farm operators, manufacturers and insurance companies. Thus, numerous CMS are already available on the market, however monitoring and fault detection is almost exclusively limited to the turbines drive train. Structural monitoring systems CMS, so called structural health monitoring systems (SHM) are currently only available to a very limited extent and are used almost exclusively in the research context. This applies especially to systems supervising wind turbines primary structural components such as the blades, tower and foundations. This paper explores the possibility of an alternative radar based monitoring technique which utilizes public broadcast transmissions to detect specific damage events remotely. Such a passive bistatic radar system (PBR) is capable of isolating and analyzing signal components of such transmissions, that have been scattered from objects within the environment such as the large scale structures from a wind turbine. This investigation aims to demonstrate that a PBR system is capable of extracting information about the wind turbines structural dynamic as a potential new class of SHM system. The presented results were obtained from measurement data taken with a prototype PBR, which is currently deployed within an on-shore wind farm.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134254472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Aghababaee, G. Ferraioli, V. Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi
{"title":"Robust TomoSAR focusing for forest height retrieval","authors":"H. Aghababaee, G. Ferraioli, V. Pascazio, Gilda Schirinzi","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385271","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to discuss and present analysis on robust reconstruction of vertical structure of forested area suing multi-baseline synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. To deal with problem of low signal to noise (SNR) ratio, robust non-local (NL) techniques of covariance matrix estimation are employed and compared with classical multi-looking approaches. The analysis will consider the quality of the vertical structure profile in such a way to cover the reconstruction quality using both single and fully polarimetric MB data sets. To evaluate the three-dimensional imaging of volumetric media in case of fully polarimetric images, the sum of Kronecker product (SKP) of covariance matrix in which polarization is considered as a way to discriminate the vertically aligned scatterers. From the experimental results, the impact of NL neighborhoods in robust estimation of covariance matrix to resolve the interference signals (e.g. layover) is the most relevant conclusion of the paper.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"48 22","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120836651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water allocation planning in inland waterways based on constraint satisfaction problem","authors":"Debora C. S. Alves, Arnaud Doniec, E. Duviella","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385261","url":null,"abstract":"Inland waterways are large-scale networks that are dedicated principally to navigation. The current management of these systems can be impacted by extreme events and/or increase of navigation demand. Hence, it is necessary to anticipate these possible impacts and to study the resilience of the inland waterways. The proposed methodology is based on a modelling approach of the inland waterways according to a web-user interface. It allows the use of optimal water allocation algorithms that are designed to solve constraint satisfaction problems. The water resource allocation is performed on future horizons of several days. A simulator based on Matlab/Simulink is developed thanks to the conception of a dedicated Simulink library. This new functionality is illustrated by considering a real case-study.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"280 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114488185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eco-friendly dual-band AULOS® passive radar for air and maritime surveillance applications","authors":"T. Martelli, F. Colone, R. Cardinali","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385267","url":null,"abstract":"The last results obtained with the Eco-friendly dual-band AULOS® passive radar sensor carried out within the long-term collaboration between Sapienza University of Rome and Leonardo S.p.A. are here reported. Specifically, FM and DVB-T signals are parasitically exploited for air and maritime surveillance applications. A significant effort concerned the development of signal processing techniques to be efficient in both the investigated applications. To this purpose, the recent processing techniques developed by the research group of Sapienza have been applied. We show that the FM-based AULOS is able to detect with great continuity the typical aerial traffic as well as aircrafts with low RCS. In contrast, the DVB-T based sensor can be successfully employed for monitoring vessel of different dimensions both in the proximity of a port that travel during the day. The reported results confirm that the considered sensor can be usefully employed for improving safety and security of public areas, such as airports and harbors, preserving both the landscape integrity and the electromagnetic health of the population.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122785844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Prati, F. Rocca, F. Asaro, B. Belletti, S. Bizzi
{"title":"Use of cross-POL multi-temporal SAR data for image segmentation","authors":"C. Prati, F. Rocca, F. Asaro, B. Belletti, S. Bizzi","doi":"10.1109/EE1.2018.8385249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EE1.2018.8385249","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution to the image segmentation of multi-temporal SAR data acquired with VV — VH polarization is analyzed. The backscattering intensity, the short time interferometric coherence and the decorrelation time of scatterers have been used to separate different ground backscattering behavior both in VV and VH polarization. Then, these six parameters have been projected into a domain with reduced dimensionality by means of a Covariance Matrix Analysis. The resulting covariance values show that the main contribution to the image segmentation from the VH polarization comes when the short time interferometric coherence is different from that of the VV polarization. Preliminary results are presented on an agricultural area. Moreover, the VV-VH complex coherence has been exploited to identify urban areas and permanent scatterers. It has been verified that the coherence phase in urban environments can be only 0 or 7 accordingly to the theory of dihedral and trihedral backscattering.","PeriodicalId":173047,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Environmental Engineering (EE)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132843698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}