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European Territorial Cooperation Programmes (ETCP), GREECE-ITALY 2007-2013
Efficient Irrigation Management Tools for Agricultural Cultivations and Urban Landscapes
IRMA -
Subsidy Contract No: I3.11.06
LP-TEIEP | P2-AEPDE | P3-INEA | P4-ISPA/CNR | P5-ROP | P6-ROEDM
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involved in a number of research
projects
on
operational
water
management,
hydrometeorological
forecasting and early warning. Case
studies include Upper-Blue Nile and
Awash rivers in Ethiopia, Ganges river
in Bangladesh, Umbeluzi catchment in
southern Africa, and through EU FP7
research projects he has been
connected to water management
studies in Portugal, Greece, and the
Netherlands. By developing ensemble
prediction methods and researching
the proper use of these forecasts for
applications in reservoir control,
irrigation, and flood forecasting and
early warning, he aims to contribute to
a wider uptake of probabilistic
forecasts for risk-based decision
making in water management
applications.
Dr. John Triantafilis
is a senior
lecturer in Soil Science at the
University of New South Wales
(UNSW) Australia. He obtained a
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and
PhD from the University of Sydney. He
specializes in the area of applied
geophysics and pertaining to the
application of proximal sensing
electromagnetic
(EM)
induction
instruments to digital soil mapping
(DSM). He has led research projects,
like the collection of baseline soil and
EM data across various irrigated areas
in Australia and to develop DSM of
various soil physical (e.g. soil texture),
chemical (e.g. salinity), stability (e.g.
ESP), water (e.g. field capacity) and
hydrological (e.g. deep drainage)
properties. These DSM have been
made
available
to
various
stakeholders, including farmers and
policy analysts, in a web-GIS called
terraGIS
(see
.
Recently he has collaborated in the
development and application of
inversion software (see EMTOMO -
to invert EM
data collected along single and closely
spaced transects. Case studies
include three-dimensional: models that
infer the location of preferential flow
paths of a leachate plume beneath a
decommissioned municipal landfill;
mapping of soil ESP across an
irrigated cotton growing field; regolith
modelling of the interaction between
paleaochannels and connate salts
beneath an irrigated area; and,
mapping coastal salinity at the
beach/swash zone interface.
Mr. Xatzakis Georgios
, is a
Mechanical Engineer and a writer.
During the last 10 years he is devoted
to the preservation of the irrigation
windmills of Lasithi (Crete, Greece).
For this he has studied in depth their
history, he invented new ways for
keeping the sails continuously on, he
made
numerous
lectures
and
presentations and he wrote the book
These
activities made him candidate for the
cultural heritage, Europa Nostra
Awards 2014.
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85 oral and poster presentations
85 oral and poster presentation from
20 countries around the world will be
presented.