A valid help
From today, the new smartphone app 'Burrow Tracker', created by Unimore professors and researchers, is freely accessible on Google Play (Android) and App Store (iOS). It allows you to track the activity of burrowing mammals and prevent bank collapses, a valid aid to maintain the functionality of embanked waterways throughout Europe. The application was developed by Professors Stefano Orlandini, Giovanni Moretti, Marco Redolfi and PhD students Simone Pizzileo, Riccardo Gasperoni, Rachit Soni of the Laboratory of Fluvial Hydrology and Morphodynamics of the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari".
Exact geographic location
This application specifically allows to establish the geographical position of burrows dug by porcupines, badgers and other burrowing mammals on the banks and in the surrounding areas. The aim is to facilitate effective management of watercourses in order to ensure their flood disposal capacity and their ecosystem function, for the benefit of citizens. The app was developed as part of the RAMB research project “Rivers Affected by Mammal Bioerosion,” funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU recovery plan. RAMB is a multidisciplinary project between Hydrology, Geomechanics and Ecology that aims to improve the understanding of the impact of burrowing mammals such as porcupines, badgers, red foxes and coypus on banks and to develop a decision support system that allows the management of burrowing mammals along embanked watercourses with economic and ecological benefits.
Hydraulic safety
“By using the Burrow Tracker app you become a member of the RAMB pan-European and global Citizen Science community,” comments Prof. Orlandini. “The RAMB Citizens 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 application will be presented on Thursday 14 November from 19.00:20.30 p.m. to 10:2024 p.m. at the Tecnopolo in Modena (Via Pietro Vivarelli 2024), 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 embankment collapses at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting XNUMX, in December XNUMX. The app was developed by Moko, a company from Reggio Emilia specialized in the creation of apps and websites (source: UNIMORE).
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