Diapositiva 1

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ICONE seminar 1 Asunción, Santa Fe, São
Paulo March 2006 DISAT and the other
involved institutes from Florence Personnel
working at the project
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Department of Agronomy and Land Management ,
Universita di Firenze, DISAT-UNIFI Institute
for Biometeorology, National Research Council,
IBIMET-CNRCenterfor informatic applications to
Agriculture, Accademia dei Georgofili,
Ce.S.I.AFoundation for Applied Meteorology, FMA
DISAT makes part of a wider research pole,
including 4 insitutes whose facilities are
available for the ICONE project
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Institutes DISAT description
Department of Agronomic sciences and Land
Management of the University of Florence,
DISAT-UNIFI

• Founded in 1925 as Chair of Agriculture, it
  passed through several changes until 1997, when
  reached the present state and name, with three
  separate sectors
• Soil and Land Management
• Herbaceous production Management
• Ecophysiology and Agrometeorology

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Institutes DISAT description
Educational activity

• 9 degree Courses at the Agrarian and forest
  Sciences Faculty (Agrometeorologia e
  Agroclimatologia Agronomia generale
  Coltivazioni Erbacee Ecologia Agraria
  Orticoltura Miglioramento genetico delle Piante
  Coltivate Prati, pascoli e tecniche di
  inerbimento Valutazione Agronomica e
  Conservazione del Suolo)
• Several Ph.D. research lines herbaceous
  cultivation and mountain pasture, Soil Science
  and Climatology, Agro-biotechnologies applied
  to Tropical Productions .
• Master courses
• ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE (ORGANIC AND BIODINAMIC)
• APPLIED METEOROLOGY

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Research branches
Institutes DISAT description

• DISAT research activity is organized according to
  a structure of increasing aggregation and
  complexity, around the broader topic of
  agro-forestry in temperate, tropical and
  subtropical environments.
• DISAT personnel 12 Professors, 6 researchers, 11
  technical staff, 13 PhD candidates, several grant
  holders

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Research branches
Institutes DISAT description

• Basic system level (e.g. climate)
• Survey and assessment of agroclimatic parameters,
  
• Monitoring techniques and design of models for
  prediction of the relation between climatic
  features and agricultural production.
• Effect of climate change on vegetation due to
  green-house effect, ozone layer depletion, etc
• Soil system level
• Studies on the Physical properties related to
  strucural features and technical and agricultural
  applications
• Research on erosion factors
• Nutrient release as function of soil characters,
  vegetation coverage and enrichment via herbaceous
  species planting.

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Research branches
Institutes DISAT description

• Plant system level
• Genetic improvement,
• genetic-physiological mechanisms for adaptation
  to stress factors (resurrection species)
• Seeds analysis and reproduction (biotechnologies
  for in vitro and in vivo reproduction).
• evaluation, characterization and conservation of
  germplasm from temperate and tropical regions.
• Reaction capacity of plants to factors limiting
  production, including vegetal pathogens and
  insects.
• Land system level
• Study, monitoring and automatic processing of
  agroclimatic factors
• Research on agricultural and pasture aiming at
  sustainable use of land resources.

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Born in early '80s as CNR IATA to face the need
for RS applications to agriculture and to
strenghten the research in the field of
agrometeorology and environmental analysis in
agricultureIn 1995 changes name and turns into
the Istituto per lAgrometeorologia e lAnalisi
Ambientale applicati allAgricoltura. In 2000
was born the present Istituto di Biometerologia
(IBIMET) joining IATA from Florence, IMAes
(Sassari) and ISTEA (Bologna)
Institutes IBIMET description
Istituto di Biometeorologia, Consiglio Nazionale
delle Ricerche, IBIMET-CNR
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Institutes IBIMET description

• Former IATA and present IBIMET gained a relevant
  experience in the field of the relations between
  climate and agricultural species through
• participating to research projects at
  international (EPOCH, CLAIRE, CLIVARA, CHIP
  dellUnione Europea) and national (CLIMAGRI,
  Agenzia 2000-CNR) level
• Collaborating with other research centers working
  in the same sector
• DISAT, Florence University,
• CeSIA-Accademia dei Georgofili,
• Foundation for Applied Meteorology
• IBIMET personnel 120 units, including
  researchers and technical staff

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Institutes IBIMET description
Educational activities

• Mainly developed in the frame of several
  programmes and projects, at national and
  international level.
• WMO aknowledged the CNR IBIMET as "Regional
  Meteorological Training Center for the VI
  Region", with the task to organize higher
  education annual courses for knowldge transfer to
  Developing Countries several types of
  educational activites are currently being
  conducted
• Grants for post high-school and post-graduated
  fellows
• Stages
• Professional Master Courses
• Intensive Courses
• Seminars and dedicated meetings for Public and
  Private Institutions and Agencies
• Distance learning (online courses and tutoring)

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Research fields
Institutes IBIMET description
Meteorology and Climatology Development and
transfer of knowledge and new technologies about
meteorology and climate change studies at global
scale. Applications of climatic studies to
agriculture and forestry, urban environment and
human healt
Agroeteorology and Ecophisiology Natural
ecosystems adaptation to global changes and
analisys of the interaction between meteorlogical
variables, cultivated species and agricultural
management
Earth Observation and Environmental Monitoring
Application of Remote Sensing to Land Analisys,
through airborne sensors and satelite imagery
integrated with direct measure instruments
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Institutes IBIMET description
Research fields
Environmental Modelling Study of the relation
between climatic events and related dynamics of
forests, cultivated species, pests () by means
of mathematic models, development of dedicated
software and operating systems
Sensors and devices Design and construction of
automatic systems for remote environmental
survey and measure, data storage and transmission
Environmental Protection and Planning Study of
possible options for sustainable land use
planning, in order to protect the environmental
resources and to maintain the cultural and social
heritage
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Institutes IBIMET description
Research fields
Global Change and Environmental risk Aiming at
the causes of environmental changes, understand
processes and trends in order to assess the
effects on ecosystems and mankind
Marine and Coastal Biometeorology Study of the
influences of meteorological factors and human
activities over marine and coastal environment
Improvement of cultural and environmental
heritage Classification of relevant elements,
design of tecniques for recovery, conservation
and use especially considering their
vulnerability to climatic conditions
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Institutes FMA description
Foundation for Applied Meteorology, FMA

• Founded in 1994 as Fondazione per la Meteorologia
  Applicata
• In 2003, a Laboratory of Meteorology and
  Environmental Modeling was created.

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Research branches
Institutes FMA description

• The Foundation makes research but its main task
  is KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER, mainly in
• Environmental modeling
• Techniques for data spatialisation and missing
  data estimates
• Design of sensors and networks for data
  collection and transmission
• Procedure for climate analisys
• RS and GIS applications for Land Monitoring.

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Institutes CESIA description
Centre for Studies on Informatic Applications to
Agriculture, Accademia dei Georgofili, Ce.S.I.A

• The Academy was fouded in Florence in 1753 with
  the aim of promoting research in agricultural
  field.
• In 1984 the Academy founded the Centre for
  studies on computer applications to agriculture
  (Ce.S.I.A).
• Nowadays, Ce.S.I.A is a Public Research Institute
  with the legal status of non-profit NGO dedicated
  to new technology development and transfer to
  agriculture and environment.

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Research branches
Institutes CESIA description

• Since the foundation, Ce.S.I.A. has been
  developing 4 principal areas
• Research applied to design and management of
  simulation models.
• FIS and RS applications for Environmental
  Resources management
• Education short courses and individual stages.
• Technical Support for other Institutions, mainly
  public agencies.
• At national scale, Ce.S.I.A is involved in the
  implementation of Governmental Projects
• At international level, the Center has been
  working in several projects together with various
  bodies from the EU and the UN.

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ICONE seminar 1 March 2006 DISAT and the other
involved institutes from Florence Personnel
working at the project
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Personnel involved in the ICONE project

• DISAT
• Prof. Marco Bindi (resp. Simulation models)
• Prof. Simone Orlandini (resp. Bioclimatic
  Classification)
• Dr. Marco Moriondo (GIS)
• IBIMET
• Dr. Fabio Maselli (resp. Remote Sensing)
• Mr. Francesco Sabatini (meteorological stations)
• Mr. Alessandro Zaldei (Flux towers)
• Contact person for IBIMET-DISAT Dr. Alessandro
  Dessì

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Personnel description
Experience of RS responsible

• Dr. Fabio Maselli
• Title degrees in Natural Sciences and Biology
• Position IBIMET researcher
• Research activity RS applications to land
  classification (e.g use of soil) and monitoring
  of ecosystems
• Project coordination
• RESMEDES project, under the EU Program
  Environment and Climate 1996-98.
• ASI project on methods for agro-climatic
  classification using RS data, 1997, 1998, 1999.
  
• CAMELEO project, under the EU Program Environment
  and Climate 1996-98.
• RESYSMED project, under the EU Program
  Environment and Climate 1998-99.
• Publications 160 papers on national and
  international journals

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Personnel description
Experience of the responsible for Simulation
Models

• Dr. Prof. Marco Bindi
• Title Degree in Agronomics
• Position Professor at DISAT
• Research activity impact of climate change over
  agrarian and forest ecosystems, models for
  simulating development and growth of agricultural
  species.
• Project coordination
• CLAIRE project, under the EU Program Environment
  and Climate 1994-96.
• CLIVARA project, under the EU Program Environment
  and Climate 1996-98.
• CHIP project under the EU Program Environment and
  Climate 1997-1999.
• Publications more than 140 papers on national
  and international journals

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Personnel description
Experience of the responsible for Bioclimatic
Classifications

• Dr. Prof. Simone Orlandini
• Title Degree in Agronomics
• Position Professor at DISAT
• Research activity development of integrated
  metodologies for Bioclimatic Classifcations,
  development of simulation models for grapevine
  pests.
• Publications more than 120 papers on national
  and international journals

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Personnel description
Experience of the contact person for DISAT and
CNR IBIMET

• Dr. Alessandro Dessì
• Title degree in Environmental Sciences, Ph.D
  candidate
• Position Advisor
• Research activity Climatology, RS and GIS
  applications to Land Use Planning, Research
  Applications for Development.
• Professional experience abroad
• 2003/5 Argentina, Brasil
• 2002 Colombia, Bénin, Guatemala, about 8 months
• 2000 Colombia, about 3 months
• 1999 Bolivia and Peru, about 2 months