An innovative multi-source approach for environmental monitoring of landfills

An accurate analysis of Landfills is fundamental to improve decision making strategies for planning anthropic ac?vi?es. The op- ?miza?on of new techniques for the monitoring of landfills represents a crucial issue since usual inves?ga?on methods are expensive and ?me-consuming. The applica?on of remote sensing improves the monitoring of different environmental matrices and the assessment of gas and leachate migra?on. Reflectance spectroscopy approach can be adopted to inves?gate the stressed vegeta?on or soil pollu?on due to waste deposits developing site-depending spectral indices which are linked to biochemicals factors. This paper describes a mul?-source approach based on the use of remote sensing data and spa?al processing techniques to monitor the environmental condi?on around landfill. This approach was applied for the POR NO-GAS Project, funded in the framework of the Innova?on hub "Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technologies for the Sustainable Management of environmental resources", focuses on emissions from landfills, both punctual and spread.