Geographic information systems and remote sensing applied to improve the management of natural resources.

We use remote sensing, geographic information systems and local sensors to map light pollution and infer environmental and social parameters from it.

How quasars are related to star and galaxy formation is one of the most pressing cosmological questions and the one we've been trying to dilucidate.

Green cities for adaptation and resilience: co-benefits for people, environment and society.

This work proposes a new lift mechanism capable of explaining the hydrodynamic lift observed in real mechanical face seals with parallel surfaces. While it is well established that roughness is a key factor inducing such lift, its effect is commonly explained in the form of micro-wedges and asperity-level cavitation. The novelty of this work is to consider roughness-induced random variability in the flow restriction, which induces effective wedges. First, a dedicated stochastic two-scale model is developed and used to demonstrate the proposed new mechanism in a case study. We demonstrate that the described new mechanism acts at scales comparable to the macroscopic size of the seal, much larger than the commonly considered micro-wedges. Afterwards, the limitations for this new proposed mechanism are discussed.

This article tracks the evolution of the regulatory framework in relation to transport noise in England from private and public nuisances in common law to the defence of statutory authority. We look at the evolution of transport noise law focusing primarily on the emergence of turnpike roads in the eighteenth century, railways in the nineteenth century, the extension of road motor vehicles in the verge of the twentieth century and, lastly, the introduction of jet aircraft after World War II. The introduction of these noise sources shaped the current noise regulatory framework in England.

Paramo ecosystems are areas of high natural interest as they contribute to water regulation, carbon retention, and possess significant biodiversity. The objective of this study is to develop an effective, economical, and easy to update methodology that allows simple monitoring of its conservation status, rate of degradation, and changes in land use at all times with the aim of, helping to take adequate measures to protect the high Andean tropical moors.

We have developed a simple photogrammetric method to identify heterogeneous areas of irrigated olive groves and vineyard crops using a commercial multispectral camera mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). By comparing NDVI, GNDVI, SAVI, and NDRE vegetation indices, we find that the latter shows irrigation irregularities in an olive grove not discernible with the other indices. This may render the NDRE as particularly useful to identify growth inhomogeneities in crops. Given the fact that few satellite detectors are sensible in the red-edge (RE) band and none with the spatial resolution offered by UAVs, this finding has the potential of turning UAVs into a local farmer’s favourite aid tool.

Dvorak keyboard layout for the Catalan language.

Material de suport per les assignatueres a la UPC.

Set up for the combo Emacs Org-mode & Jekyll.

UPC BarcelonaTech (Coord.) · Wroclaw University (Poland) · Polito (Italy) · TU Graz (Austria) · Khmelnytskyi National University (Ukraine)

Master's degree in Natural Resources Engineering. UPC · BarcelonaTech

Bachelor's degrees in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering, Mining Engineering, Chemistry Engineering, and in ICT Systems Engineering. (Access course website as visitor with password «fisica».)