Unit APPLIED GEOLOGY, MONITORING MEASURES
- Course
- Environmental engineering
- Study-unit Code
- GP004433
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Corrado Cencetti
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
GEOLOGY APPLIED TO SOIL PROTECTION
| Code | GP004443 |
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| CFU | 5 |
| Teacher | Corrado Cencetti |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Ingegneria per l'ambiente e territorio |
| Academic discipline | GEO/05 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Geological Hazard and Risk. Volcanic risk. Hydrogeological risk (landslide risk and geological-hydraulic risk). Interference between slope processes and fluvial dynamics (landslide dams). Springs and their classifications. Groundwater intake structures. Mining and quarrying activity. Planning and environmental recovery. Petroleum geology. Alternative energies. Interference between slope processes and fluvial dynamics (landslide dams). |
| Reference texts | Didactic material furnished by teacher, consisting in the slides showed during the lessons and in scientific papers and laws in force. |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge: Understand and identify the main geological risk situations due to the interference between landslides and fluvial dynamics. Skills / Know-how: Identify the methods and the correct intervention criteria for risk mitigation due to the interference between landslides and fluvial dynamics. |
| Prerequisites | Basic knowledge of Geology (Students have already taken, during the three-year degree, the exam of TECHNICAL GEOLOGY). |
| Teaching methods | Lessons (even in field) |
| Other information | None |
| Learning verification modality | A single oral examination, aimed at verifying whether the Student has acquired the knowledge of the geological problems due to the interference between landslides and fluvial dynamics. For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa |
| Extended program | Introduction to the module. Types of environmental risks. The geological risk (seismic, volcanic and hydrogeological). Definitions of hazard, vulnerability and risk. Prevision and prevention. The Plans of Hydrogeological Assessment (PHA) in Italy. The volcanic risk, in particular reference to italian conditions. The risk due to fluvial dynamics of the riverbeds. Fluvial systems. Stream corridor. Scales of study. Works and activities interferring with fluvial dynamics. The conditions of italian streams (in Alpine and Apenninic areas). The modifications induced by human activities. Erosional processes and bedload transport deficit. Case histories (River Arno, River Tiber and its tributaries). The Channel Evolution Model by Schumm. Criteria of settlement of riverbeds. The risk due to the interference between slope landslides and fluvial dynamics: the landslide dams. Risk conditions induced by landslide dams. Characterization of phenomenon and definition of interference scenarios. Causes of landslide dams. Classifications (Swanson et alii, 1986; Costa & Schuster, 1988). Limits of classifications. Effects consequent upon the occurring of the complex phenomenon and its evolution. Dam break (ways, causes and effects). Case histories. Dynamics of aquifers. Springs and their classification. Groundwater intake structures. Exploitation works. Mining activity. Quarries and mines. Technologies and methods of mining and environmental recovery. Criteria for classification and types of quarries. Classification patterns (Balletto, 1999; Canuti et alii, 2008). The planning of quarrying activity. The RPQA (Regional Plan of Quarriying Activity) of Umbria Region. Characterizing phases of quarrying activity. Detection of quarrying areas. Conditioning factors. Performance, recovery and efficiency. Elements for evaluation of quarries sites (deposits and environment). Preparatory works for the excavation. Phases of study for opening a quarry. Environmental impacts of quarrying activity. Laws in force. The EEI (Evaluation of Environmental Impact). The impact on the atmosphere, on the rivers, on groundwater, on soil, on vegetation and fauna. Effect and remediations. The impact due to noise. Effect and remediations. The laws in force in the matter of acoustic pollution. Studies of environmental impacts for the opening of a quarry. The analysis of starting state and technical expertises. The project. Identification and evaluation of effects. Environmental markers. Multicriterial approach. Method of evaluation matrix. Leopold matrix. Methods for reducing and preventing the damaging consequences of quarrying activity. Environmental and social recovery of abandoned quarrying sites. Destinations of use of abandoned quarries. Pro-capite production (per operator and per inhabitant) in Italy. Petroleum geology and alternative energies. The risk due to the interference between slope landslides and fluvial dynamics: the landslide dams. Risk conditions induced by landslide dams. Characterization of phenomenon and definition of interference scenarios. Causes of landslide dams. Classifications (Swanson et alii, 1986; Costa & Schuster, 1988). Limits of classifications. Effects consequent upon the occurring of the complex phenomenon and its evolution. Dam break (ways, causes and effects). Case histories. |
APPLIED GEOMATICS
| Code | GP004444 |
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| CFU | 5 |
| Teacher | Aurelio Stoppini |
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| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Ingegneria per l'ambiente e territorio |
| Academic discipline | ICAR/06 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | GNSS positioning techniques. Post-processing and real time techniques. GNSS static and dynamic networks. Applications to Civil Engineering. Digital aerial photogrammetry. Deformation monitoring and testing of structures. Cadastre: mapping and updating with GNSS techniques. |
| Reference texts | Lecture notes by the teacher. Cina, A.: Dal GPS al GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System). Per la geomatica. Ed. CELID |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge of the main GNSS and terrestrial surveying techniques utilised in Civil Engineering with refer to desing, tracking of structures and infrastructures, machine control, monitoring of soil surface, diggings and structures, cadastre. Skill in designing and executing surveys for civil engineering |
| Prerequisites | Geodesy and surveying basis as developed in the course TOPOGRAFIA of the three years course of Civil Engineering |
| Teaching methods | Lessons integrated with a relevant practical activity |
| Other information | Due to the practical character of the module, lectures frequency is advisable |
| Learning verification modality | A single oral examination lasting about 30 minutes, aimed at verifying whether the Student has acquired the knowledge of the themes and methodologies involved by the course |
| Extended program | GNSS positioning techniques: GPS, GLONASS and GALILEO and their evolution. Characteristics and interoperability. Signals and observables. Modelling of biases (troposphere, ionosphere), multipaths, antenna calibration. GNSS methodologies: absolute, relative and differential positioning. Static and kinematic techniques. Post-processing and real time techniques. Utilization of GNSS static networks. Utilization of GNSS dynamic networks (permanent stations) and of positioning services. Applications of the GNSS techniques to Civil Engineering: survey of diggings, tracking of structures and infrastructures. Integration of GNSS and total station surveys. Digital aerial photogrammetry: Fundamentals of photogrammetry: collinearity; coplanarity; internal, relative and absolute orientation; stereoscopic and monoscopic restitution. Photogrammetric flight planning and execution. Preliminary evaluation of the achievable accuracy. Photogrammetric triangulation. Digital photos and digitizing of analogical photos. Automatic correlation, orthoprojection, DTMs and DSMs. Practice on aerial digital photogrammetry, production of orthophotos and DTM/DSM. Deformation monitoring: instruments (automatic high-accuracy total stations, digital levels). Selection of the most appropriate methodology for the type, size and velocity of the movements to control. Monitoring of structures, diggings, retaining walls, foundations. Determination of structure deformations for static tests on structures. Practice on deformation monitoring (simulating three-dimensional movements with a mechanical device) and structures testing. Cadastral surveys: Organization of the terrain and urban cadastre in Italy. Cadastral maps, geodetic networks, fiducial points. Surveys for cadastral updating: the PREGEO software and the techniques admitted by the current rules. Use of GNSS techniques. Practice on cadastral updating with GNSS (real time kinematic). |