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Monitoring Systems

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Course Unit Code546-0429/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
PER34doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D.
Summary
Entrances of pollutants to the single components of environment, transport in environment and his interferences, transformations. Influences pollutants on quick organisms and contrivance these influences. Risk rating connected with present pollutants in life environment. Possibilities restricted entry of pollutants to the environment and their elimination from environment. Basic group pollutants in single components of environment. Method research and monitoring pollutants.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Knowledge rendered after completion of the course: Do the themes of which have been prepared outline of the subject. Inputs of pollutants into the individual components of the environment, transport, environment and its influence, transformation. Skills rendered after completion of the course: They can present the results of individual work and learn the basics of searching information sources and processing in the form of research.
Course Contents
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.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
HANSLÍK Eduard: Radioaktivní látky v životním prostředí, EKOMONITOR. 2012, 108 s., ISBN 978-80-86832-64-7.
Projekt GMES – oficiální stránky: http://www.gmes.info/
KURFÜRST, Jiří: Kompendium ochrany kvality ovzduší. EKOMONITOR. 2008, 408 s., ISBN 978-80-86832-38-8.
BURKHARD, Jiří: Kompendium sanačních technologií. EKOMONITOR. 2006, 280 s., ISBN 80-86832-15-5.
PERTILE, Eva: Monitorovací systémy. CD, VŠB TU-O. Učební texty, 2010, 94 s.
Recommended Reading:
ČASOPISY, např.: Earth System Monitoring (U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
http://www.szu.cz/publikace/monitoring-zdravi-a-zivotniho-prostredi,
HORA, J., BRINKE, T., VOJTĚCHOVSKÁ, E., HANZAL, V., KUČERA, Z. (eds.): Monitoring druhů přílohy I směrnice o ptácích a ptačích oblastí v letech 2005-2007. AOPK ČR 2010
ČASOPISY, např.: Earth System Monitoring (U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
KOČÍ, Vladimír: Posuzování životního cyklu – Life Cycle Assessment – LCA EKOMONITOR. 2009, 264 s., ISBN 978-80-86832-42-5
KURAŠ, Mečislav: Odpadové hospodářství. EKOMONITOR 2008. 152 s., ISBN978-80-86832-34-0.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Project work, Other activities
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Exercises evaluation and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        Exercises evaluationCredit33 (33)17
                Semestrální projektSemestral project13 7
                Prezentace semestrálního projektuSemestral project10 5
                AktivitaSemestral project10 5
        ExaminationExamination67 34