Thematic Areas and Relevant Technologies
The thematic areas are
- Emerging sensor technologies for environmental characterization
- Advances in groundwater –surface water interaction and critical zone monitoring
- Innovative approaches for subsurface data analysis and simulation (e.g. machine learning)
- Subsurface investigation in challenging settings (e.g. urban areas and complex sites)
- Airborne and remote sensing technologies
- Investigation of heavily stressed aquifers
- Crowdsourcing and citizen science methodologies in the environmental sciences
- Emerging contaminants (e.g. microplastics and PFAS)
Relevant technologies are
- Near-surface and borehole geophysics
- Direct-push technology
- Fiber optics technology
- Remote sensing
- Machine learning
- Hydrological, hydrochemical and hydrogeological investigation techniques
- Crowdsourcing and citizen sensing
