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Papers by Laura Muscas

Geomatics, Feb 7, 2024

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Apr 1, 2015

FORMAT COMLAND Field Meeting in Sardinia, Italy, Oct. 13-19, 2012 A Grid based approach to suppor... more FORMAT COMLAND Field Meeting in Sardinia, Italy, Oct. 13-19, 2012 A Grid based approach to support soil management and soil use in Sardinia (Italy) A. Vacca*, E. Lorrai**, L. Muscas**, A.V. Marrone*, M. Orrù*, V. Spanu* *Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Via Trentino 51, I-09127 Cagliari, Italy **CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia), Loc. Piscinamanna, I-09010 Pula (CA), Italy During recent decades the problem of soil degradation has been widely investigated in Sardinia (Italy) in the frame of national and international projects. The findings have shown anthropogenic factors to be the leading cause of soil degradation. Three main groups are identified: agriculture, forestry and pastoral activities, and industrial activity and urbanization. Land planning at different levels based on an accurate inventory of the natural resources, including soils, on their evaluation and on the definition of alternative, suitab...

Journal of Advances in Information Technology, 2016

Web applications and portals are strategic gateways to deliver tools, data, computational infrast... more Web applications and portals are strategic gateways to deliver tools, data, computational infrastructures and services over the Internet. Software and data interoperability is the key factor to enable the integration of knowledge and share common objectives. Web applications are using ever more big spatial data ecosystems that usually involve cross-border data flows and rely on open Internet. Demand of web GIS based applications, in particular, shows a steady growth over the last few years, indicative of a scenario where spatial-data infrastructures will be ever more consumed by mobile and web applications. Management and analysis of large and growing volumes of geo-data is challenging the scientific community without clear long term solutions. The INNO project's objective is to improve, develop and apply innovative, state of the art technologies to efficiently query, render and expose on the web spatially enabled data. The solution proposed is based on a NoSQL database infrastructure, on the set up of a efficient innovative communication protocol and the use of a light web-GIS client library to view results. Two specific goals are recognized to be of paramount importance; to improve the consumption of spatial data on the WEB and to build regional capacities on Global Earth Observation (GEO) proposing new standards and approaches.

Coastal Aquifer Management-Monitoring, Modeling, and Case Studies, 2003

Nel periodo Gennaio-Aprile 1998 il gruppo Ambiente del CRS4 ha ospitato tre laureande in Ingegner... more Nel periodo Gennaio-Aprile 1998 il gruppo Ambiente del CRS4 ha ospitato tre laureande in Ingegneria Ambientale dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari, che hanno studiato problematiche relative al dissesto idrogeologico realizzando delle mappe di rischio tramite un applicativo GIS 1. Il presente rapporto contiene una descrizione generale dei tre lavori, con alcuni cenni più dettagliati sul ruolo avuto dal GIS negli stessi. La prima sezione è dedicata a una delle tre tesi di Laurea e riguarda lo studio della vulnerabilità degli acquiferi della zona di Flumini di Quartu. L'illustrazione delle altre due tesi, che affrontano il problema del rischio idrogeologico in termini di instabilità dei versanti, è stata accorpata in un’unica sezione, data la sostanziale identità della metodologia adottata (seppure in siti diversi). Per informazioni più dettagliate sui tre studi si rimanda alle Tesi di Laurea [3, 5, 6]

2006-10-28Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2, Località Piscinamanna 09010 Pula (CA) - ItaliaKick-off M... more 2006-10-28Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2, Località Piscinamanna 09010 Pula (CA) - ItaliaKick-off Meeting del Progetto GRIDA

Archeomatica, 2019

CRS 4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) developed the Geoportal... more CRS 4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) developed the Geoportal Nurnet (http://nurnet.crs4.it/nurnetgeo/) to manage and share information about the Bronze Age in Sardinia (Italy). The scope of this paper is to explain how the Geoportal Nurnet (net of Nuraghes, the typical Sardinian building from the Bronze Age) has been developed to promote the Bronze Age culture in Sardinia, identified in the Pre-Nuragic (3200−2700 BC) and Nuragic (up to the 2nd century AD ) civilization. It is fed by a net of conventional social connections and social web networks empowered by private citizens, agents and public administrations sharing the same goals and interests.

The site under study covers an area of 273 km in the Oristano plain on the west coast of Sardinia... more The site under study covers an area of 273 km in the Oristano plain on the west coast of Sardinia (Italy). Since 1950 the plain, formed during the Quaternary by alluvial deposits, has been under intensive cultivation and is an important dairy farming centre. In the coastal region, the large number of wells (25,000 tapped and not) some very close to each other, has resulted in over-exploitation of the aquifer system creating a circular circuit of water between the shallow phreatic aquifer and the deeper semi-confined aquifer. As a consequence, a significant deterioration of groundwater quality due to seawater encroachment has been observed in three successive monitoring campaigns (1989, 1995, 2000). This study aims to investigate the causes of saltwater intrusion by developing a model supported by a geographic information system. A three-dimensional finite element model (CODESA 3D) is used to simulate coupled flow and solute transport processes in variably saturated porous media. The...

In the last decades, the collection and use of environmental data has enormously increased in a w... more In the last decades, the collection and use of environmental data has enormously increased in a wide range of applications. Simultaneously, the explosive development of information technology and its ever wider data accessibility have made it possible to store and manipulate huge quantities of data. In this context, the GRID approach is emerging worldwide as a tool allowing to provision a computational task with administratively-distant resources. The aim of this paper is to present three environmental applications (Land Suitability, Desertification Risk Assessment, Georesources and Environmental Geochemistry) foreseen within the AGISGRID (Access and query of a distributed GIS/Database within the GRID infrastructure, http://grida3.crs4.it/enginframe/agisgrid/index.xml) activities of the GRIDA3 (Administrator of sharing resources for data analysis and environmental applications, http://grida3.crs4.it) project. This project, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of research, is based on t...

The TOURRENIA project (http://www.tourenia.eu), a French and Italian acronym for Tourisme Reseaux... more The TOURRENIA project (http://www.tourenia.eu), a French and Italian acronym for Tourisme Reseaux Niches Accessibles – Turismo Reti Nicchie Accessibili, funded by the Coastal Italy and France Transfrontier Maritime Cooperation Program, involve CRS4 as technology partner and four municipalities: Palau (Sardinia), Portovenere (Liguria), Forte dei Marmi (Tuscany), and Bastia (Corsica). The main objective of the TOURRENIA project is to better interrelate tourism supply and demand and to facilitate the local territory management from a sustainable and accessible tourism point of view. At the same time, the project aims to create a network between the four local governments and to share and improve tourism management and best practices, both through a web portal and through cross-border meetings involving the interested tour operators. The web portal is the point of access to the TOURRENIA system and its functionalities. It manage the cross-border information and ensures independence in t...

Geomatics, Feb 7, 2024

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Apr 1, 2015

FORMAT COMLAND Field Meeting in Sardinia, Italy, Oct. 13-19, 2012 A Grid based approach to suppor... more FORMAT COMLAND Field Meeting in Sardinia, Italy, Oct. 13-19, 2012 A Grid based approach to support soil management and soil use in Sardinia (Italy) A. Vacca*, E. Lorrai**, L. Muscas**, A.V. Marrone*, M. Orrù*, V. Spanu* *Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Via Trentino 51, I-09127 Cagliari, Italy **CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia), Loc. Piscinamanna, I-09010 Pula (CA), Italy During recent decades the problem of soil degradation has been widely investigated in Sardinia (Italy) in the frame of national and international projects. The findings have shown anthropogenic factors to be the leading cause of soil degradation. Three main groups are identified: agriculture, forestry and pastoral activities, and industrial activity and urbanization. Land planning at different levels based on an accurate inventory of the natural resources, including soils, on their evaluation and on the definition of alternative, suitab...

Journal of Advances in Information Technology, 2016

Web applications and portals are strategic gateways to deliver tools, data, computational infrast... more Web applications and portals are strategic gateways to deliver tools, data, computational infrastructures and services over the Internet. Software and data interoperability is the key factor to enable the integration of knowledge and share common objectives. Web applications are using ever more big spatial data ecosystems that usually involve cross-border data flows and rely on open Internet. Demand of web GIS based applications, in particular, shows a steady growth over the last few years, indicative of a scenario where spatial-data infrastructures will be ever more consumed by mobile and web applications. Management and analysis of large and growing volumes of geo-data is challenging the scientific community without clear long term solutions. The INNO project's objective is to improve, develop and apply innovative, state of the art technologies to efficiently query, render and expose on the web spatially enabled data. The solution proposed is based on a NoSQL database infrastructure, on the set up of a efficient innovative communication protocol and the use of a light web-GIS client library to view results. Two specific goals are recognized to be of paramount importance; to improve the consumption of spatial data on the WEB and to build regional capacities on Global Earth Observation (GEO) proposing new standards and approaches.

Coastal Aquifer Management-Monitoring, Modeling, and Case Studies, 2003

Nel periodo Gennaio-Aprile 1998 il gruppo Ambiente del CRS4 ha ospitato tre laureande in Ingegner... more Nel periodo Gennaio-Aprile 1998 il gruppo Ambiente del CRS4 ha ospitato tre laureande in Ingegneria Ambientale dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari, che hanno studiato problematiche relative al dissesto idrogeologico realizzando delle mappe di rischio tramite un applicativo GIS 1. Il presente rapporto contiene una descrizione generale dei tre lavori, con alcuni cenni più dettagliati sul ruolo avuto dal GIS negli stessi. La prima sezione è dedicata a una delle tre tesi di Laurea e riguarda lo studio della vulnerabilità degli acquiferi della zona di Flumini di Quartu. L'illustrazione delle altre due tesi, che affrontano il problema del rischio idrogeologico in termini di instabilità dei versanti, è stata accorpata in un’unica sezione, data la sostanziale identità della metodologia adottata (seppure in siti diversi). Per informazioni più dettagliate sui tre studi si rimanda alle Tesi di Laurea [3, 5, 6]

2006-10-28Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2, Località Piscinamanna 09010 Pula (CA) - ItaliaKick-off M... more 2006-10-28Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2, Località Piscinamanna 09010 Pula (CA) - ItaliaKick-off Meeting del Progetto GRIDA

Archeomatica, 2019

CRS 4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) developed the Geoportal... more CRS 4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia) developed the Geoportal Nurnet (http://nurnet.crs4.it/nurnetgeo/) to manage and share information about the Bronze Age in Sardinia (Italy). The scope of this paper is to explain how the Geoportal Nurnet (net of Nuraghes, the typical Sardinian building from the Bronze Age) has been developed to promote the Bronze Age culture in Sardinia, identified in the Pre-Nuragic (3200−2700 BC) and Nuragic (up to the 2nd century AD ) civilization. It is fed by a net of conventional social connections and social web networks empowered by private citizens, agents and public administrations sharing the same goals and interests.

The site under study covers an area of 273 km in the Oristano plain on the west coast of Sardinia... more The site under study covers an area of 273 km in the Oristano plain on the west coast of Sardinia (Italy). Since 1950 the plain, formed during the Quaternary by alluvial deposits, has been under intensive cultivation and is an important dairy farming centre. In the coastal region, the large number of wells (25,000 tapped and not) some very close to each other, has resulted in over-exploitation of the aquifer system creating a circular circuit of water between the shallow phreatic aquifer and the deeper semi-confined aquifer. As a consequence, a significant deterioration of groundwater quality due to seawater encroachment has been observed in three successive monitoring campaigns (1989, 1995, 2000). This study aims to investigate the causes of saltwater intrusion by developing a model supported by a geographic information system. A three-dimensional finite element model (CODESA 3D) is used to simulate coupled flow and solute transport processes in variably saturated porous media. The...

In the last decades, the collection and use of environmental data has enormously increased in a w... more In the last decades, the collection and use of environmental data has enormously increased in a wide range of applications. Simultaneously, the explosive development of information technology and its ever wider data accessibility have made it possible to store and manipulate huge quantities of data. In this context, the GRID approach is emerging worldwide as a tool allowing to provision a computational task with administratively-distant resources. The aim of this paper is to present three environmental applications (Land Suitability, Desertification Risk Assessment, Georesources and Environmental Geochemistry) foreseen within the AGISGRID (Access and query of a distributed GIS/Database within the GRID infrastructure, http://grida3.crs4.it/enginframe/agisgrid/index.xml) activities of the GRIDA3 (Administrator of sharing resources for data analysis and environmental applications, http://grida3.crs4.it) project. This project, co-funded by the Italian Ministry of research, is based on t...

The TOURRENIA project (http://www.tourenia.eu), a French and Italian acronym for Tourisme Reseaux... more The TOURRENIA project (http://www.tourenia.eu), a French and Italian acronym for Tourisme Reseaux Niches Accessibles – Turismo Reti Nicchie Accessibili, funded by the Coastal Italy and France Transfrontier Maritime Cooperation Program, involve CRS4 as technology partner and four municipalities: Palau (Sardinia), Portovenere (Liguria), Forte dei Marmi (Tuscany), and Bastia (Corsica). The main objective of the TOURRENIA project is to better interrelate tourism supply and demand and to facilitate the local territory management from a sustainable and accessible tourism point of view. At the same time, the project aims to create a network between the four local governments and to share and improve tourism management and best practices, both through a web portal and through cross-border meetings involving the interested tour operators. The web portal is the point of access to the TOURRENIA system and its functionalities. It manage the cross-border information and ensures independence in t...