GTI’s activity is integrated in LNEC’s Strategy for Research and Innovation (E2I). It is anchored in many multi-partner research projects, including universities and companies, funded by a broad scope of national and international funding agencies.
In the past 5 years, GTI has been funded by the following international programs: |
In Portugal, GTI led and participated in several research and innovation projects : |
One of the most emblematic outcomes of these projects is the Water Information Forecast Framework (WIFF), a multi-purpose platform for coastal and urban real-time forecast and monitoring, linking high-performance models and wireless sensor networks. Detailed information and selected products of WIFF are freely available at http://ariel.lnec.pt
GTI also develops consultancy studies for Portugal in Portugal and abroad. Over the period 2014-202, GTI’s activity will be focused on the following themes:
 | Real time forecast and monitoring systems for environmental phenomena
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Joint Action: A Stepping-stone for underwater noise monitoring in Portuguese waters - jUMP
The project aims to promote the debate on underwater noise by developing
a number of activities, such as punctual collection of acoustic data,
calibration of acoustic models and debate activities with different
stakeholders.
Year: 2020
Accountable: Alberto Azevedo
Coordinator(s):
WavEC Offshore Renewables
Funding:
Fundo Azul
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UStreamSim: integrated modelling in urban systems and streamflow simulation in rivers (1D/2D)
The USTREAMSIM
service is available for public use at the Infrastrutura Nacional de Computação
Distribuída (INCD). This service allows for an integrated 1D / 2D modeling
using the combined use of the Basement and SWMM (Storm
Water Management Model) models for modeling runoff and drainage systems. Basement
is a freeware simulation tool for hydro- and morphodynamic modelling. It’s a 2D
tool for numerical modeling of environmental flow and natural hazard events. SWMM
is a 1D tool that helps predict runoff quantity and quality from drainage
systems.
Accountable: Anabela Oliveira
Coordinator(s):
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding:
Horizonte 2020 - União Europeia
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RESCCUE RAF App
The RESCCUE RAF App is a innovative and user-friendly web application to
empower city managers with a tool to cope with Climate Change, supporting
assessment, diagnosis and decision-making as well as the development of
resilience plans, to monitor progress of a city or service.
Coordinator(s):
Aquatec, Suez Water Advanced Solutions
Funding:
Horizonte 2020 - União Europeia
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OPENCoastS - Coastal circulation on-demand forecast
The OPENCoastS service assembles on-demand circulation forecast systems
for selected coastal areas and keeps them running operationally for a
period defined by the user. This service generates daily forecasts of
water levels and vertically averaged velocities over the region of
interest for 48 hours, based on numerical simulations of the relevant
physical processes.
Year: 2018
Coordinator(s):
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding:
EOSC-hub
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AQUAMON - Dependable Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks in Water Environments
AQUAMON will develop a dependable monitoring platform for application in aquatic environments using wireless sensor networks, providing:
Data communication quality over water surfaces, mitigating problems related to waves and propagation characteristics over a water surface; Transmission predictability, addressing problems related to shared medium access contention; Data quality, dealing with faults that affect both sensors and communication.
Year: 2019
Coordinator(s):
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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INCD@LNEC - Portuguese National Distributed Computing Infrastructure
INCD aims
to establish, continuously enhance and operate a larger digital infrastructure
to deliver state-of-the-art computing and data services to the wider Portuguese
scientific and academic community. It will support research in all scientific
domains enabling effective participation in national and international research
projects and activities.It is included in the Portuguese
Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia
(FCT)
Year: 2017-2020
Accountable: Anabela Oliveira
Coordinator(s):
Associação INCD
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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MOSAIC.pt - Multi-source flood risk analysis for safe coastal communities and sustainable development
The MOSAIC.pt project aims to develop an innovative flood risk management framework for coastal zones, including estuaries, based on the integration of predictive models and real-time monitoring data, and taking into account the different dimensions of the vulnerability.
Year: 2019
Accountable: Paula Freire
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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EOSC-hub: Integrating and managing services for the European Open Science Cloud
The EC-funded project EOSC-hub project started on January 1st 2018, bringing together an extensive group of national and international service providers to create the Hub: a central contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research.
Year: 2018
Accountable: Anabela Oliveira
Coordinator(s):
EGI Foundation
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WADI - Innovative Airborne Water Leak Detection Surveillance Service
The WADI project will develop an airborne water leak
detection surveillance service to provide water
utilities with adequate information on leaks in water
infrastructure outside urban areas, thus enabling prompt and
cost-effective repairs. WADI’s innovative concept consists in coupling and optimising
off-the-shelf optical remote sensing devices
(multispectral and infrared cameras) and applying them on two
complementary aerial platforms (manned and unmanned) in
an operational environment. The feasibility of the surveillance
service developed by WADI will be tested in real representative
conditions through water leak detection campaigns on two
pilot sites: Provence region (France) and Alqueva
(Portugal). Video
Year: 2017
Coordinator(s):
youris.com EEIG
Funding:
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 689239
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MOLINES - Modelling floods in estuaries. From the hazard to the critical management
Some of the world most densely populated cities are located in estuarine low-lying areas facing a high risk of inundation with a potential for significant economic costs. The hazards associated with these processes arise from the particular characteristics of those environments, as linking zones between river and ocean systems, and increasing human activity in their marginal and surrounding areas. This point is emphasized by the World Disaster Report that focuses on urban risk, as well as by the European Union's strategy for prevention of natural and anthropic disasters.
Year: 2013-2015
Coordinator(s):
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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UBEST - Understanding the biogeochemical buffering capacity of estuaries relative to climate change and anthropogenic inputs
The scientific goal of UBEST is to improve the global
understanding of the biogeochemical buffering capacity of estuaries and its
susceptibility to future scenarios of anthropogenic inputs and climate change.
UBEST will effectively support the short and long-term management of these
systems. This goal will be achieved by deploying "observatories”, which are
emerging tools that integrate process-based numerical models and their results,
and in-situ observations. To promote the generalization of the conclusions, two
Portuguese estuaries with very distinct characteristics will be assessed, the
Ria Formosa and the Tagus estuary.
Year: 2016-2019
Coordinator(s):
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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MARSol - Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought
The main objective of MARSOL is to demonstrate that MAR (Managed Aquifer Recharge) is a sound, safe and sustainable strategy to storage the excess of water in aquifers to be recovered in times of shortage. This contributes to improve inter-annual water resources management, as well as to solve groundwater quality problems.Videos available for MARSOL demo site 2 Algarve, Portugal:
Accountable: Teresa E. Leitão
Coordinator(s):
TUD, Darmstadt Technical University, Prof. Dr. Christoph Schüth
Funding:
Comissão Europeia, 7.º PQ da UE, call WATER-INNO-DEMO, European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007‐2013), call WATER-INNO-DEMO
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AQUAGIS-Mon – Autonomous robotic platform for surface water bodies monitoring
The R&D Project aims to
development an autonomous catamaran vessel for surface water monitoring,
configurable enough to deal specifically with the Water Framework Directive
(WFD) monitoring requirements (European Commission, 2003) established in the
European River Basin Management Plans (RBMP).
Since the fixed monitoring
sites can only offer a restricted sampling of the water body conditions, we
have developed an innovative autonomous robotic vessel capable to observe and
measure water quality and hydromorphological elements on rivers, estuaries and
reservoirs. This platform was conceived to be used in narrow (a few meters) to
large systems and in a variety of depths, having the ability to monitor
obstacles and handles sharp bathymetric, geometric and hydrodynamic variations.
Year: 2013
Coordinator(s):
AMBISIG
Funding:
European Regional Development Fund, Compete, QREN
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SI-GeA – Intelligent Support System for the Advanced Management of Urban Wastewater Systems
The R&D project SI-GeA aims at developing an intelligent system for monitoring and decision support in real time of all the relevant information for the management of urban systems for sewage and stormwater, including gravitational collectors, pumping systems and treatment plants. This information comes from remote monitoring networks, operational data from said networks and real-time forecasting systems of the behavior of infrastructures and media receivers. The system will be designed to meet the requirements of frequent use of information by managers, allowing as well the creation of products on demand in real time.
Coordinator(s):
Siemens
Funding:
European Regional Development Fund, Compete, QREN
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SPRES - Oil spill prevention and response at local scales
Goals The main aims of this project are to: (i)
develop a set of high resolution operational oceanographic systems in s
everal estuaries or ports located in the Atlantic Area, and (ii)
establish local oil spill response plans for these local areas based on
risk as sessment. To achieve these goals the project include the
following activities which are defined in much more detail in Section 5:
(1) preparation, (2) project management, (3) development of a set of
high resolution operational oceanographic systems, (4) development of a
set of high resolution operational oil spill forecast systems, (5)
development of a risk assessment system, (6) development of local oil
spill response plans and (7) a communication plan. In order to manage
and distribute the work, some of the partners will lead specific
activities due to their wide experience in a concrete field.
Nevertheless, they will count on with the collaboration of one or more
of the other partners depending on their skills.
Year: 2012-2014
Coordinator(s):
Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantabria
Funding:
European Regional Development Fund, Atlantic Area programme – European Union
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PREPARED - Enabling change
Pilot
testing of the methodology for early warning of health risks from faecal
contamination in recreational waters will be done by integration of a coupled
hydrodynamic-faecal contamination model for the Algés-Alcântara section of the
Tagus estuary with the real time CSO monitoring in the same area. The pilot
system will be prepared to provide early warnings, derived from real time now-
and forecasts contamination model simulations. Such warnings could be used as a
basis for the immediate management for reducing the health risk – and equally
important – to provide information concerning when the event is expected to be
over.
Year: 2010-2014
Coordinator(s):
KWR Water B.V.
Funding:
FP7 - União Europeia
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PAC:MAN - Management system of the risk of pollution accidents in coastal areas
The goals of PAC:MAN are to investigate: - past accident data to develop environmental indicators of spill-prone atmospheric and oceanographic conditions in the Iberian shelf and to validate them in a coastal system;
- the usefulness of high-accuracy modelling systems for risk prevention and early-warning, including the relevant processes in a coastal oil spill;
- the feasibility, advantages and scalability of an alert system based on recent communication technologies;
the usefulness of information technology systems to integrate and provide relevant environmental information on the ecological elements at risk, and to assess how these innovative aspects can be integrated in a risk management early-warning and alert system for spill accidents in coastal regions.
Coordinator(s):
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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G-CAST - Application of GRID-computing in a coastal morphodynamics nowcast - forecast sistem
G-cast aims at combining the novel computational resources provided by Grid computing and the team expertise in the use of existing state-of-the-art numerical models to develop an exploratory analysis of the impact of climate changes on the long-term morphodynamic evolution of coastal zones. This goal will be achieved through - the adaptation of a suite of models within an existing morphodynamic modeling system to Grid-computing environment;
- the integration of this modeling system in a nowcast-forecast computational system adapted for the Portuguese coast, and
- its exploratory application to the analysis of climate change in the long-term morphodynamic dynamics of two contrasting coastal systems: the Óbidos lagoon and the Aveiro lagoon.
Year: 2008-2011
Coordinator(s):
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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BGEM - Towards operational forecasting of ecosystem dynamics: Benchmarking and Grid-enabling of an ecological model
A research proposal between the National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC, Portugal) and the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU, U.S.A.) is briefly presented, to support the development of the existing partnership between these two institutions. This proposal aims to integrate complementary research strengths at the two institutions to improve and validate a sophisticated ecological modeling system for operational forecasting of ecosystem dynamics based on grid computing resources. The Portuguese partner will provide the ecological model and the expertise on grid-enabling of numerical models. The American partner will provide the expertise on parallel computing and the benchmark for validation and inter-model comparison. The specific goals of the project are: - to parallelize and grid-enable the ecological modeling system;
- to validate and assess the performance of the modeling system in a coastal benchmark, based on the wealth of data collected in the coastal observatory of the Columbia river estuary and plume, and
- to reinforce existing working collaborations and to establish a long-term relationship between the two institutions, through the identification of long-term funding mechanisms for common research goals.
Year: 2008
Coordinator(s):
LNEC - Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering)
Funding:
Luso-American Foundation
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