EUROCONFERENCE

Link Geo and Water Research
February 7th – 9th, 2002 (Genova, Italy)

It is the start-up Euro Conference, intended to introduce the various research groups and the state-of-the-art and the major subjects of research; it is the occasion for a better mutual knowledge of the ECO-GEOWATER partnership and for defining the collaboration scheme.

It will presents also some European funded projects whose results can be exploited by the conference audience of researchers and users.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

• GISIG – Geographical Information Systems International Group
• AMGA SpA – Azienda Mediterranea Gas e Acqua

DRAFT PROGRAMME

Thursday 7 February 2002

• Opening session

• WG1 Water Resources Assessment Session

Friday 8 February 2002

• WG2 Water Use Management Session

• WG3 Natural Hazards Session

• Geographical Information and IT Session

Saturday 9 February 2002

• The Catchment Framework Session

• Round Table
  ECO-GEOWATER for the Water and GI Community

• The ECO-GEOWATER next steps

Thursday 7 February 2002, h. 10.00

Opening session

• Michele Campanale - AMGA SpA
  Welcome

• Emanuele Roccatagliata, Giorgio Saio - GISIG
  Introduction to the ECO-GEOWATER project and to the "Link Geo and Water Research" Conference

• Andrea Tilche, Panagiotis Balabanis - European Commission, DG Research
  The Water Framework Directive and the initiatives of the Key Action "Sustainable management and quality of water"

• Alessandro Annoni, Jurgen Vogt - European Commission, JRC IES
  The INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) initiative and its relationship with the Water Framework Directive

• André Van der Beken - Techware
  Networking for Water: Benefits and Pitfalls

• Wolfgang Schilling - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  Flooding in urban drainage systems. Modern tools to solve an old problem

• Discussion

WG1 Water Resources Assessment Group Session

• Istvan Ijjas - Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  The rationale and perspective of the Working Group 1, Water Resources Assessment

• Roger Moore - National Environmental Council, Center for Ecology and Hydrology
  The Present and Future Direction of GIS in Water Resource Assessment

• Carlo Giupponi - University of Padova
  The project MULINO - Multi sectoral, integrated and operational decision support system for sustainable use of water resources at the catchment scale

• Zuzana Boukalova - Vodnì Zdroje GLS
  The project LOWRGREP - Landscape-use optimisation with regards of the groundwater resources protection in the mountain hardrock area

• Mike Acreman, Helen Davies- National Environmental Council, Center for Ecology and Hydrology
  GRAPES - Groundwater and river resources action programme on a European scale

• Valentin Nenov - Bourgas University
  Current status of water management in Bulgaria

• Paola Forcheri, Stefano Moretti, Alfonso Quarati
  Multimedia for continuous training in the water industry

• Presentation of the WG1 EuroWorkshop (July 2002, UK)
  
• Discussion
  
  

Friday 8 FEBRUARY 2002, h.09.00

WG2 Water Use Management Group Session

• André Van der Beken - Techware
  Water Use Management: What , Why and How?

• Nicola Bazzurro - AMGA SpA
  GIS oriented innovative approaches for urban wastewater through European research projects: Sprint, Integrated Wastewater, Radar Hydrology (HPCN), Life-Aquarius, Life-IMOS

• Stefano Cintoli, Marcella Volta
  The European project CARE-W - Computer aided rehabilitation of water networks

• Claudia Lasagna - AMGA SpA
  Water Quality control in urban environment: data handling and GIS applications

• Presentation of the WG2 EuroWorkshop (October 2003, Italy)

WG3 Natural Hazards Group Session

• Alberto Carrara, CNR-CSITE
  GIS-based statistical models for assessing landslide hazard

• James Bathurst - University of Newcastle upon Tyne
  Modelling landslide sediment yield at the basin scale in the DAMOCLES project (Debrisfall Assessment in Mountain Catchments for Local End-userS)

• Fausto Guzzetti - CNR-IRPI
  A GIS-based computer program for the three-dimensional simulation of rock-falls

• Giovanni Crosta - Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie - Università di Milano Bicocca
  Physically based distributed modelling of shallow landslides

• Ad De-Roo - European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, IES
  Simulating and forecasting floods in Europe

• K. Blyth, H. Davies - National Environmental Council, Center for Ecology and Hydrology
  RIPARIUS - Risk of inundation, planning and response interactive user system
  
• Presentation of the WG3 EuroWorkshop (November 2002, I)

Geographical Information and IT Session

• Graeme Wilkinson - Kingston University
  Technological Convergence in Hydrological monitoring: Earth Observation, GIS, and location-aware computing

• Lars Bernard - Muenster University
  GI Interoperability in the Water Domain
  
• M. Attene, S. Biasotti, B. Falcidieno, M. Spagnuolo - Istituto per la Matematica Applicata, CNR
  Computational methods for simplification and generalisation of Digital Terrain Modelling

• Nuno Neves - University of Evora
  Geographical minimal elements data model and knowledge discovery on surface propagation modelling

• GISIG
  The lessons of The Best-GIS project

• Presentation of the ECO-GEOWATER EuroLabCourse (March 2003, Italy)

• Discussion
  
  

Saturday 9 FEBRUARY 2002, h.09.00

Final session: The Catchment Framework

• Roland Hiederer - European Commission DG JRC - IES
  European Catchment Information System for Agri-Environmental Issues

• Roger Moore - Natural Environment Research Council
  The project Harmon-IT

• Derek Karssenberg - Utrecht University
  Geographical Information Systems and Hidrological Modelling

• Philippe Froissard - European Commission
  The IHP Improving Human Potential Programme and the 6th FP

• Round Table: ECO-GEOWATER and the Water Framework Directive

• Giorgio Saio - GISIG
  The ECO-GEOWATER next steps

• Final discussion