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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Monitoring Systems

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0429/02
Abbreviation MS
Course title Monitoring Systems
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The inputs of pollutants into the individual components of the environment, transport, environment and its influence, transform pollutants.
2. Impact of pollutants on living organisms and the mechanisms of these effects. Options limit the input of pollutants into the environment and their elimination from the environment.
3. Global Monitoring - principles, methods and systems.
4. Remote survey - basics and concepts.
5. Remote sensing of the environment.
6. Global monitoring of the atmosphere,
7. Global Monitoring hydrosphere
8. Global monitoring of vegetation, residential agglomerations.
9. Global monitoring for the environment and health.
10. Global monitoring - natural disaster - prevention (floods, tropical cyclones, tsunamis, seismic and volcanic activity, desertification, deforestation, fires, droughts, epidemics).
11. Global monitoring for the environment and safety.
12. GMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security.
13. ENVIS information service on environment and others.
14. Legislature.

Literature

COCKERHAM, L. G., SHANE, B. S.: Basic Environmental Toxikology, CRC Press, Boca Raton 1994.
EVANGELOU, V.P.: Environmental Soil and Water Chemistry: Principles and Applications. Wiley Interscience
FRANCIS, B. M.: Toxic Substance in the Environment, J. Wiley and Sons, New York 1994.
WIERSMA, G. B. Environmental monitoring. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2004. ISBN 1-56670-641-6 .

Doporučená literatura

ČASOPISY, např.: Earth System Monitoring (U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).