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Pamela Alejandra Dominutti
Degree in Environmental Health
Professor and research assistantFaculty of Health Sciences, National University of Entre
Ríos
PhD student in Science and Technology
Fortaleza - Brazil, 01-12 November 2010 Fortaleza - Brazil, 01-12 November 2010
Concepción del Uruguay- Entre Ríos - Argentina
Current ResearchCurrent Research2
PID - UNER “Spatial characterization of
environmental risk in Concepción del Uruguay city
using geographical information technologies”
Environmental Risk Assessment by
floods in the north area of Concepción del Uruguay City using
geographical information tools.
Research Team: STIEFEL, Marta L.
CARÑEL, Griselda E. COSTA, Patricia
SAVOY, FranciscoDOMINUTTI, Pamela A.
Entre Ríos
Argentina
MotivationsMotivations
•Permanent Threat•Focus on population vulnerability•Objective: reach the risk management for its future decrease
Materials and methods:
Satellite imagesDemographic and socio economic dataEnvironmental analysis
GIS, Remote sensing, information from surveys
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Some Some applicationsapplications 4
April 2008 – Normal course of the Uruguay River
December 2009 – the greatest floods in the last
half century
Landsat and Cbers Images
December 2009
Spatial profile for Band 4 and 5Threat analysisThreat analysis 5
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Analysis of the flooded area
Threat analysisThreat analysis
Characterization of river
Natural Threat occurrence in the last 50 years
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•Area of influence• Basin study•Threat exposition
There shouldn´t be buildings according to the law
Vulnerability AnalysisVulnerability Analysis 8
Digitalization and geographic localization of demographic dataSocio-economic and environmental analysis of population exposed to the
threat
PhDPhD. . progressprogress9
Modeling of atmospheric pollutants dispersion in the Uruguay River area
PhD Advisor: Dr. Guillermo Berri
Research developed in the National Weather Service
Environmental Monitoring Program of the Uruguay River
NOAA Hysplit ModelCompute air concentration, trajectories and deposition
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Point Source, located in UruguayPulp Factory
International conflict
Output Trajectories compute
Future worksFuture works
PID - UNER “Spatial characterization of environmental risk in Concepción del Uruguay city using geographical information technologies”
Characterization and quantification of humidity in the southern soils of Entre Ríos, Argentina
Environmental, social and productive assessment of the Parana River Delta (Wetlands area)
Epidemiological mapping of families with children and adolescents with preventable health problems in communities of Entre Ríos” - Project funded by the Science and Technology Agency of Entre Rios State
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PhD.Improve HYSPLIT model knowledgeAtmospheric chemistryApplied remote sensing tools
Chas Gracias!Chas Gracias!
12Sunset on the Uruguay River – Source: ONG Vida