EDITORIAL article Front. Environ. Sci., 10 May 2022Sec. Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing Volume - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.917590

Abstract Thermal emission spectra can provide key insights into the composition and thermophysical properties of regolith on Moon other airless bodies. However, under lunar surface environmental conditions, uppermost millimeters (from which thermal originates) cannot be characterized by a single temperature, leading to changes in spectral characteristics that should accounted for interpreting m...

Environmental management is becoming increasingly dependent on quantitative analysis of environmental and health risks associated with exposure to chemical contaminants. Exposure to chemical pollutants can occur via primary pathways (e.g., inhalation of polluted air or drinking contaminated water) and/or secondary pathways (e.g., ingestion of contaminated food) and therefore requires informatio...

Being able to work with mathematical models of hydrological and environmental systems becomes increasingly important for students of civil and environmental engineering departments. Courses or course sections teaching the specific skills needed are slowly making their way into the curriculum. This paper discusses the requirements for tools to teach these topics. Two example tools for model iden...

Mathematical models can be useful in decision-making processes whenever the amount of data and relations are too complex to be analyzed based solely on experience and/or intuition. Models, when properly developed and maintained, and equipped with proper tools for their analysis can integrate relevant knowledge available from various disciplines and sources. Most environmental decision problems ...

In this paper we discuss three rather special characteristics shared by many environmental problems. Namely, that (i) the environmental variables in which we are most interested constitute a stochastic process; (ii) the long-term or limiting behavior and the short-term or transient behavior are often both important; and (iii) the underlying probability distributions are likely to be influenced ...

Flow and transport processes in unsaturated soil are analyzed through a simulation environment based on cellular automata (CA). The modeling proposed in this chapter represents an extension of the original computational paradigm of cellular automata, because it uses a macroscopic CA approach where local laws with a clear physical meaning govern interactions among automata. This CA structure, ai...