Environment

The environment is the total sum of the physical things on Earth that affects and conditions all its inhabitants.

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Areas of service	Applications of the service	Scientific infrastructure
Air studies	Assessment of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air (indoor and outdoor)	Environment Centre Laboratory
	Continuous control of VOC episodes via sensors	Environment Centre Laboratory
	Characterisation of activity emission sources	Environment Centre Laboratory
	Validation of particle transport models: measurement with remote sensing instruments. Detection of desert dust, ash from fires and volcanoes to adapt models for predicting the dispersion of these atmospheric components.	ORS infrastructure: UPC/Barcelona remote sensing station
	Detection of water vapour profiles in the atmosphere. Validation of models for predicting the formation of clouds and precipitation: measures with remote sensing instruments	ORS infrastructure: UPC/Barcelona remote sensing station
	Calibration of equipment for measuring radon in the air. Use of radon as an atmospheric tracer.	Radon Laboratory
Detection, monitoring and modelling of fires	Modelling of urban and industrial fires using CFD tools	FlamesLab
Detection, monitoring and modelling of fires	Tools for monitoring forest fires. Modelling of forest fires at the urban-forest interface using CFD tools	FlamesLab
Catalysts and photocatalysts	Development of catalysts and photocatalysts for energy and environmental purposes	Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering
Catalysts and photocatalysts	Tests of catalysts and photocatalysts in energy and environmental applications in industrially relevant settings	Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering
Resource recovery and environmental management		Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering
Study and modelling of terrestrial problems and subsoil	Contamination of the subsoil: resource management, decontamination	Groundwater Hydrology Laboratory (GHS)
	Environmental impact studies	Groundwater Hydrology Laboratory (GHS)
	Impact of underground water on infrastructure	Groundwater Hydrology Laboratory (GHS)
	Decision-making support and resource management	SARTI Metrology Laboratory
Study and modelling of marine problems	Large infrastructure of wave flumes to reproduce the conditions that occur in maritime aquatic environments. They enable the development of projects to study the effects of climate change, reduce its impacts, etc.	LIM
	Measurement of ground humidity, biomass, sea ice, waves, etc. using remote sensing systems	Algorithms
	Development of bioacoustic technologies for monitoring marine and terrestrial biodiversity: technological developments for the conservation of biodiversity and coexistence with human activities	Lab Aquatic acoustic tunnel
	Calibration of aquatic sensors, development of software to analyse acoustic aquatic samples	Lab Aquatic acoustic tunnel
	Design of methodology and acoustic protocols to fight against aquatic pests	Lab Aquatic acoustic tunnel
	Decision-making support and resource management	SARTI Metrology Laboratory
	Monitoring service for environmental and marine variables	OBSEA
	Laboratory to test instruments in a real marine environment	OBSEA
Habitability studies	Environmental studies to identify parameters that affect urban habitability	Virtual Innovation Laboratory for Modelling Architecture and the City - VIMAC
Acoustic and Vibration Study	Acoustic and vibration field study. Preparation of mathematical models on any problem relating to noise and vibrations	Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory
	Railway characterisation: test of train tracks to find out how the track behaves and determine vibration in the environment	Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory
	Modelling of propagation of vibrations	Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory
	Measurement of acoustic power. Acoustic design. Creation of acoustic maps.	Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory
	Acoustic leak detection in industrial facilities.	Acoustics calibration tunnel - TACMA- LAB
Monitoring of lightning	Territorial deployment of a sensor network in Catalonia to monitor storm activity	Xarxa Lightning Research Group - LRG

Climate change, sustainability, environment, air quality, VOC, volatile organic compounds, air pollutants, air pollutants, odor, air dispersion, mathematical model, indoor air, outdoor air emissions, sensorization, VOC sensors, air quality sensors, GC-MS , AERMOD, CALPUFF, TAPM, COMSOL, industrial risk, forest fires, risk at urban-forest interface, urban and industrial fires, catalysts, photocatalysts, environmental catalysts, chemistry, hydrogen, pollution, reuse, circular economy, wave channel, infrastructure ICTS, ICES, CIEMito, LaBassa, wave simulations, marine engineering, ports, aerosols, atmosphere, remote sensing, soil moisture, sea salinity, sea ice, swell, remote sensing, radon, calibration, metrology, digital survey, heritage, 3d model, gis , laser scanner, scan to bim, architecture, urbanism, building, urban spaces, acoustics, vibrations, mathematical models, noise, vibration propagation modeling, acoustic power measurement, disse acoustic ny, acoustic maps, lightning, storm, lightning predictions, acoustic tunnel, acoustic sensors, invasive species, pests, IoT, LPWAN, satellite, communications, sensors, networks, monitoring, marine, submarine, instrumentation, data acquisition, data processing, marine observation.

Sustainability and environment

Keywords Environment