Coastal zones along the Adriatic Sea: Italian and cross-border experiences

Development of innovative monitoring technologies in the framework of InnovaMare Project

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10131 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Angelo Odetti ◽

Federica Braga ◽

Fabio Brunetti ◽

Massimo Caccia ◽

Simone Marini ◽

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Keyword(s):

Environmental Monitoring ◽

Shallow Water ◽

Adriatic Sea ◽

Temporal Dynamics ◽

Supervised Machine Learning ◽

Detection Techniques ◽

Cross Border ◽

Wide Range ◽

Air Cushion ◽

The Cross

The IT-HR InnovaMare project, led by the Croatian Chamber of Economy, puts together policy instruments and key players for development of innovative technologies for the sustainable development of the Adriatic Sea (https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/innovamare). The project aims at enhancing the cross-border cooperation among research, public and private stakeholders through creation of a Digital Innovation Hub (DIH). The goal is to increase effectiveness of innovation in underwater robotics and sensors to achieve and maintain a healthy and productive Adriatic Sea, as one of the crucial and strategic societal challenges existing at the cross-border level. Within InnovaMare, CNR ISMAR and INM institutes and OGS, in cooperation with the University of Zagreb and other project partners, contribute to developing a solution to access and monitor extremely shallow water by means of portable, modular, reconfigurable and highly maneuverable robotic vehicles. The identified vehicle is SWAMP, an innovative highly modular catamaran ASV recently developed by CNR-INM. SWAMP is characterised by small size, low draft, new materials, azimuth propulsion system for shallow waters and modular WiFi-based hardware&software architecture. Two SWAMP vehicles will be enhanced with a series of kits, tools and sensors to perform a series of strategic actions in the environmental monitoring of the Venice Lagoon: i) An air-cushion-system-kit will be designed and developed. The vehicle will become a side-wall air-cushion-vehicle with reduction of drag and increase in speed. This will also increase the payload with a reduction of draft. ii) An intelligent winch kit with a communication cable for the management of underwater sensors and tools. iii) A GPS-RTK kit for highly accurate positioning in the range of centimeters. iv) An Autonomous programmable device for image acquisition and processing based on the Guard1 camera. This camera acquires images content and, by means of a supervised machine learning approach, recognises/classifies features such as fish, zooplankton, seabed, infrastructures. The system is conceived for autonomous monitoring activities extended in time in fixed or mobile platforms. v) A Multibeam Echo-sounder (MBES) coupled with an IMU (for pitch-roll compensation). MBES data can be used, also coupled with Cameras Imagery, through image-detection techniques for reconstruction and comprehensive knowledge of underwater environment and infrastructures. Possible analyses in coastal areas are: seabed mapping also for cultural heritage, offshore structures and resources and monitoring of biodiversity, hydrocarbon, marine litter, pollution. vi) An underwater Radiometer for multiple analysis: temporal dynamics of optical properties of water; temporal dynamics of water turbidity from water reflectance; submerged vegetation and water depth mapping in optically shallow water; produce reference data for validation of satellite data. vii) Automatic Nutrient Analyzer for real-time nutrient monitoring. This sensor measures nitrate with high accuracy over a wide range of environmental conditions (including extremely turbid and high CDOM conditions), from blue-ocean nitraclines to storm runoff in rivers and streams.&#160; The final result of this pilot action is the creation of an innovative prototype platform for sea environmental monitoring. This will be validated through the analysis of results and draw up of guidelines for the improvement of underwater conditions.

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The coastal zone of Russia on the Baltic: factors, peculiarities, perspectives and strategies for cross-border clustering

10.12737/monography_5bb21db89a8049.86694664 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Андрей Клемешев ◽

Andrey Klemeshev ◽

Геннадий Федоров ◽

Gennady Fedorov ◽

Татьяна Кузнецова ◽

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Keyword(s):

Baltic Sea ◽

Cluster Formation ◽

Coastal Zones ◽

Cluster Policy ◽

Specific Context ◽

The Baltic Sea ◽

Cross Border ◽

Economic Trends ◽

The Baltic ◽

The Impact

The study attempts to understand the phenomenon of cross-border cluster formation in the specific context of the coastal zones of Russia in the Baltic sea, to assess the impact of modern global geopolitical and geo-economic trends, including the processes of European and Eurasian integration. The priority characterizes the formation of cross-border clusters in the Russian coastal regions in the Baltic sea, analyzes the tools, problems and promising algorithms for the implementation of the cluster policy of the state, taking into account the specifics of the coastal zones.

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Cross-border Inter-Adriatic Cooperation: A Case Study

Eastern European Countryside ◽

10.1515/eec-2017-0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 103-117

Author(s):

Emilia Sarno

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Sector ◽

Adriatic Sea ◽

Italian Region ◽

Cross Border ◽

Legislative Framework ◽

The Cross ◽

The Right ◽

Cross Border Cooperation

Abstract The paper highlights the cultural and legislative framework which favours the cross-border cooperation between the countries on the shores of the Adriatic Sea. It looks at the importance of geographical and socio-economic proximity and analyses the formation of the Adriatic-Ionian Euro-region. This context is useful for the development of those territories, considered marginal, which can renew their economies through cooperation. As a case study, what is analysed is the possible cross-border relations between the Italian region Molise and Montenegro. The two territories have several elements in common and can use cooperation as a means of renewing their economy. Furthermore, the crossborder cooperation is the right strategy to modernise the agricultural sector and strengthen the tourism. For this reason, the paper aims to highlight how the cooperation is the lens through which we can identify the territorial potential which, when amplified through comparison, will emerge more clearly.

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Seawater Icicles of the Adriatic Sea

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ◽

10.1175/bams-d-18-0118.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 100 (6) ◽

pp. 987-994

Author(s):

Vlado Malačič ◽

Nedjeljka Žagar

Keyword(s):

Adriatic Sea ◽

Necessary Condition ◽

Polar Regions ◽

Coastal Zones ◽

Northern Adriatic Sea ◽

Northern Adriatic ◽

Air Temperatures ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Bora Wind ◽

The One

AbstractThe marine icicles that form on coastal constructions (e.g., piers and railings) are very common in polar and subpolar areas. The occasional formation of icicles in the coastal zones of the Mediterranean Sea occurs in relation to cold-air outbreaks from the polar region, such as the one presented in this paper in February 2018. The air temperatures over the northern Adriatic Sea, the northernmost part of the Mediterranean, dropped below –2.1°C, a necessary condition for seawater to freeze, with salinity between 38.0 and 38.5 PSU. The formation of icicles on the coastal structures was further enabled by the bora wind and related high seas along the coast. Measurements presented in this paper confirm that the icicles in the Bay of Piran in the Gulf of Trieste (45.55°N) were formed from the seawater. The measured salinity level of the melted icicles, around 9 PSU, is a typical value reported for marine icicles in polar regions.

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