Open source GIS platform for water resource modelling: FREEWAT approach in the Lugano Lake

Cannata, Massimiliano; Neumann, Jakob; Rossetto, Rudy

doi:10.1007/s41324-017-0140-4

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“…It has an average width of roughly 1 km and a maximum width of about 3 km at the bay of Lugano. It lies at 271 m above sea level and its maximum depth is of 288 m (23).…”

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How much hatchery-reared brown trout move in a large, deep subalpine lake? An acoustic telemetry study

Brignone,

Minazzi,

Molina

et al. 2024

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Fish movement into large, deep lakes has been rarely investigated due to the complexity and extent of such ecosystems. Among the different monitoring methods available, acoustic telemetry enables to study spatial ecology of aquatic organisms and to investigate their behavior in lentic environments. In this study, movement of 69 hatchery-reared adult brown trout (size 43–61 cm) marked with acoustic transmitters was monitored in the large and deep subalpine Lake Lugano (Switzerland and Italy). Trout were tracked for six consecutive months by 7 hydrophones (April-August 2022), positioned in a non-overlapping array. Trout movement was reconstructed using R packages specific for acoustic telemetry (Actel and RSP), which also allowed to translate tracking information into utilization distribution (UD) areas for each fish. The effects of different environmental variables (rainfall, water discharge of the two main tributaries of Lake Lugano, atmospheric pressure, cloud coverage and moon phases) on trout movement was tested, but none of these variables seemed to correlate with fish movement. Although trout marked with acoustic transmitters were hatchery-reared fish, the extent of their total movement throughout the study period was unexpected, with many trout moving for more than 100 km in few months. The extent of such movement patterns is potentially related to an explorative behavior, which is more pronounced in hatchery-reared fish due to their more aggressive and bolder attitude. The association of these behavioral traits, shaped by domestication, could expose hatchery-reared fish to higher risks and post-release mortality in the wild.

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“…It has an average width of roughly 1 km and a maximum width of about 3 km at the bay of Lugano. It lies at 271 m above sea level and its maximum depth is of 288 m (23).…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

How much hatchery-reared brown trout move in a large, deep subalpine lake? An acoustic telemetry study

Brignone,

Minazzi,

Molina

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…The hydrologic system is very dynamic and largely depends on surface water flows, contributed by the Lugano lake and by the streams and rivers network within each sub-basin. The application of the FREEWAT platform allowed the interaction between ground-and surface-water to be investigated [71]. OAT was extensively used throughout the modelling phase for data pre-processing to implement boundary conditions and source/sink terms.…”

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Spatial Data Management and Numerical Modelling: Demonstrating the Application of the QGIS-Integrated FREEWAT Platform at 13 Case Studies for Tackling Groundwater Resource Management

Filippis

Pouliaris

Kahuda

et al. 2019

Water

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Because of the spatial nature of groundwater-related data and their time component, effective groundwater management requires the application of methods pertaining to the Information and Communication Technologies sector, such as spatial data management and distributed numerical modelling. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the QGIS-integrated FREEWAT platform and an approach combining spatial data management and numerical models to target groundwater management issues. FREEWAT is a free and open source platform integrated in a Geographic Information System environment and embedding tools for pre-and post-processing of Water 2020, 12, 41 2 of 31 spatial data and integrating numerical codes for the simulation of the hydrological cycle, with a main focus on groundwater. To this aim, this paper briefly presents the FREEWAT platform, introduces the FREEWAT approach, and showcases 13 case studies in European and non-European countries where the FREEWAT platform was applied. Application of the FREEWAT platform to real-world case studies is presented for targeting management of coastal aquifers, ground-and surface-water interaction, climate change impacts, management of transboundary aquifers, rural water management and protection of groundwater-dependent ecosystems. In this sense, compared to other existing software suites, FREEWAT allows data analysis and visualization to accomplish each step of the modelling workflow, i.e., from data analytics, to conceptual model definition, to numerical modelling and reporting of results. The presented experiences demonstrate that improved access to data and the portability of models and models' results can help to promote water sustainability from the localto the basin-scale. Furthermore, FREEWAT may represent a valuable tool to target the objective of increasing the capabilities of public authorities and private companies to manage groundwater resources by means of up-to-date, robust, well-documented and reliable software, without entailing the need of costly licensing, nowadays seldom affordable by public water authorities. Based on the strengths highlighted, the FREEWAT platform is a powerful tool for groundwater resources management, and for data collection, sharing, implementation and comparison of scenarios, for supporting planning and decision-making.

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“…For example, they can store water, protecting floodplains from floods and supplying water during droughts. In addition, they help recharge aquifers (Cannata et al, 2018) and support biodiversity. From an economic point of view, they attract tourism and provide recreational and professional opportunities to residential populations.…”

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Automatic Assessment of Lake Status Using an Open Source Approach: Lake Lugano’s Case Study

Strigaro

Cannata

Capelli

et al. 2022

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Climate change and human activities are increasingly threatening water resources. In particular sub-alpine lakes are fundamental not only for tourism or other economical activities, but also as a source of water. In this context, there is a strong need to monitor such resources to understand, study and react to known and unknown impacts, so that appropriate mitigation actions can be taken. Unfortunately, although monitoring data already exist for many of these lakes, the information is archived in different formats and servers undermining the full exploitation of data and preventing a more efficient data management. The aim of this work is to improve this situation by implementing a system that integrates and standardizes data coming from different sources. In addition, the system integrates web based tools that estimate lake state indicators using open source software and standard. Thanks to this system, it will be possible to exploit the data potential more fully. This paper focuses on the achievements reached by the research carried out on Lake Lugano in the context of the project SIMILE after two years of work.

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Open source GIS platform for water resource modelling: FREEWAT approach in the Lugano Lake

Cited by 25 publications

References 15 publications

How much hatchery-reared brown trout move in a large, deep subalpine lake? An acoustic telemetry study

How much hatchery-reared brown trout move in a large, deep subalpine lake? An acoustic telemetry study

Spatial Data Management and Numerical Modelling: Demonstrating the Application of the QGIS-Integrated FREEWAT Platform at 13 Case Studies for Tackling Groundwater Resource Management

Automatic Assessment of Lake Status Using an Open Source Approach: Lake Lugano’s Case Study

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