A new app from Unimore that tracks the activity of fossil mammals and prevents riverbank collapses
As of today, the new ‘Burrow Tracker’ smartphone app, developed by Prof. Stefano Orlandini, Prof. Giovanni Moretti, Prof. Marco Redolfi and PhD students Simone Pizzileo, Prof. Riccardo Gasperoni and Prof. Rachit Soni, is available on Google Play (Android) and App Store (iOS). Stefano Orlandini, Giovanni Moretti, Marco Redolfi and PhD students Simone Pizzileo, Riccardo Gasperoni, and Rachit Soni of the Hydrology and Fluvial Morphodynamics Laboratory of the ‘Enzo Ferrari’ Department of Engineering at Unimore, which makes it possible to track the activity of burrowing mammals and prevent bank collapses, helping to maintain the functionality of embanked watercourses throughout Europe.
This application specifically allows the geographical location of burrows dug by porcupines, badgers and other fossorial mammals on and around riverbanks to be determined. The aim is to facilitate the effective management of watercourses in order to ensure their flood disposal capacity and ecosystem function for the exclusive benefit of citizens.
The app was developed as part of the research project RAMB ‘Rivers Affected by Mammal Bioerosion,’ funded by the European Union's NextGenerationEU recovery plan. RAMB is a multi-disciplinary project between Hydrology, Geomechanics and Ecology that aims to improve understanding of the impact of fossil mammals such as porcupines, badgers, red foxes and nutrias on embankments and to develop a decision support system that enables the management of fossil mammals along embanked watercourses with economic and ecological benefit.
‘By using the Burrow Tracker app, you become a member of the pan-European and global Citizen Science community of the RAMB project,’ comments Prof. Orlandini. ’ The RAMB Citizen project also allows you to learn about the distribution of burrows along watercourses in Europe and other geographical areas and its combined effect on hydraulic safety and the environment.
The ‘Burrow Tracker’ app will be presented on Thursday 14 November from 19.00 to 20.30 at Tecnopolo in Modena (Via Pietro Vivarelli 10), an event that will be broadcast live on the @burrowtracker YouTube channel; it will also be proposed as a Citizen Science tool for the prevention of riverbank collapses at the Fall Meeting 2024 of the American Geophysical Union, in December 2024.
This app was developed by Moko, a Reggio Emilia-based company specialising in app and website development.
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