Integrated monitoring systems 1300-OZSMP-GES

1. Monitoring of the environment – objectives and tasks of environmental monitoring:
1.1. review of literature,
1.2. basic definitions,
1.3. legal basis for monitoring in Poland.
2. Subject of monitoring – landscape, geology and ecosystem:
2.1. application of the theory of systems in environmental monitoring:
2.2. concept of geosystem functioning – environmental components.
3. Fundamentals of monitoring organization and functioning:
3.1. definitions,
3.2. role of time and space in the research,
3.3. outlines of the classification,
3.4. rules for sampling
4. Metrological basis for environmental monitoring – part I:
4.1. definitions and terms
4.2. measurement paths,
4.3. sensors, transducers,
4.4. metrological characteristics of the measurement system.
5. Metrological basis for environmental monitoring – part II:
5.1. selected elements of measurement methodology,
5.2. measurements at a distance,
5.3. basic types of recording devices.
6. Organization and structure of the State Environmental Monitoring System (PMŚ):
6.1. Environmental Inspection Monitoring
6.2. State of the environment in Poland with regard to PMŚ test results;
6.3. PMŚ publications.
7. PMŚ emission studies:
7.1. monitoring of emissions to air,
7.2. wastes
7.3. impurities in water.
8. PMŚ immission studies, principles of organization and operation, environmental assessment with regard to the results of observations:
8.1. air pollution monitoring,
8.2. noise monitoring,
8.3. monitoring of surface water (rivers and lakes).
9. PMŚ immission studies – continued, principles of organization and operation of environmental assessment with regard to:
9.1. monitoring of sediments,
9.2. monitoring of soil and Earth’s surface,
9.3. monitoring of living nature,
9.4. integrated environmental monitoring,
10. PMŚ immission studies – continued, groundwater,
10.1. groundwater monitoring – rules of organization and functioning,
10.2. national groundwater monitoring systems,
10.3. hydrogeological stations – examples of using automatic measurements.
11. Groundwater monitoring:
11.1. regional and local networks,
11.2. groundwater field studies,
11.3. groundwater status with regard to the results of observations.
12. System of quality assurance and control in environmental monitoring:
12.1. procedures and control of the analytical process,
12.2. errors of monitoring studies: identification of errors, verification of sets of observations,
13. Databases of environmental monitoring:
13.1. Groundwater monitoring database – SOH
13.2. Dictionary of the most important monitoring concepts.
14. Monitoring system of inland waters – Eurowaternet.
15. Cross-border monitoring.