Company profile and short description

 GECOsistema is a startup consulting company founded in september 2001 with the aim of turning advanced research level expertise in the field of environmental and geographic decision support systems into an affordable consulting service which can be exploited in many real world decision making processes.

 There are many fields in which modeling and decision support systems allow to achieve optimal costs and effectiveness of decisions.

Typical examples are:

o         civil protection: hydraulic risk, wildfires risk, industrial risk

o         Air Dispersion Modeling

o         water resource management at the catchment scale

o         hydraulic networks modeling

o         Landfills, contaminated sites and Human Health Risk Assessment

o         environmental impact studies (EIS)

o         remote sensing and image processing

 

• civil protection: hydraulic risk, wildfires risk, industrial risk

GECOsistema masters simulation models which allow realistic representation of the dynamics of phenomena such as

1.       catchment hydrology, river floods, dam break (HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, FLDWAV-DAMBRK)

2.       forest fires (FARSITE, BEHAVE)

3.       industrial accidents such as explosions, fires and toxic substance releases (SIRIO, DEGADIS, ...)

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• Air Dispersion Modeling

GECOsistema has specific expertise in modeling pollutants emitted from several sources (industrial point, area source and traffic linear) using ISC3 (Short and Long Term), AERMOD, CALPUFF, CALMET , CAMx, CALINE4.  These tools are essential to perform environmental impact studies for several projects, such as power plants, incinerators, new roads, waste management plants.

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• water resource management at the catchment scale

GECOsistema uses models such as TOPMODEL, SWAT and the BASINS toolbox to describe catchment scale water budgets and to evaluate the availability of water for different uses (e.g. feasibility studies for hydropower production, drinking water supply, irrigation...).

In addition, GECOsistema has a strong expertise in numerical modeling of groundwater flow, using such tools as MODFLOW, VS2DT, VS2DH and WhAEM, through which studies related to the use and protection of aquifer reservoirs can be performed.

GECOsistema performs feasibility studies and design support in the field of water resources saving and recycling, small storage reservoirs, control of hydrologic effects of land use transformation.

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• hydraulic networks modeling

GECosistema performs gas and water distribution, sewage and stormwater networks analysis using state-of-the-art models (such as SWMM, EPANET and software designed on purpose within the ArcView GIS package) in order to evaluate existing or designed hydraulic network schemes. GECOsistema also performs plans and design support for the development of such hydraulic systems.

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• Landfills, contaminated sites and Human Health Risk Assessment

GECOsistema has a specific expertise in modeling landfill hydrology using HELP and similar tools, and flow and transport in soil and groundwater (HSSM, VLEACH, MODFLOW, MT3D, etc.). these tools may be of great help in the design of contaminated sites and landfill remediation, in the evaluation of natural attenuation of pollutants in soil and groundwater, and in landfill and contaminated site management decisions.

GECOsistema performs quantitative assessment of human health risk using standard porcedures such as RBCA, CalTOx, Giuditta, HWIR and 3MRA (specific for air emission sources).

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• environmental impact studies (EIS)

GECOsistema is a leader expert in environmental modeling for EIS :

-          environmental impact assessment

-          Integrated Pollution Prevention Control (IPPC)

-          air dispersion of pollutants using such models as CamX, CalPuff, ISC3 and CALINE 4

-          surface water quality modeling using WASP 6.0 and QUAL2E

-          groundwater and soil pollution (VLEACH, HSSM, MODFLOW+MT3D etc.)

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• remote sensing and image processing

GECOsistema develops image processing algorithms for automatic extraction of environmental features such as river network, coastline, roads, urban areas, clouds and their shadows. The use of satellite images it’s a power tool useful in several analysis such as land use change, erosion monitoring, environmental impact assessment, water quality and flooded and burned area assessment.

GECOsistema uses advanced GIS and mathematical modeling tools, multicriteria analysis, geostatistics, image processing and cellular automata  for the purpose of providing optimal data exploitation and cost-effective solutions to most environmental decision makers. 

Thanks to its light structure and minimum fixed costs, GECosistema allows the possiblity to use advanced analysis tools in an affordable way so to increase cost-effectiveness of most decisions in the above mentioned fields.

Many modeling services can be offered through www as a support to local designers, planners and decision makers. For further details contact home@gecosistema.it.

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