Environmental monitoring describes the processes and activities that need to take place to characterize and monitor the quality of the environment.
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17 Facts About Environmental monitoring
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Environmental monitoring is used in the preparation of environmental impact assessments, as well as in many circumstances in which human activities carry a risk of harmful effects on the natural environment.
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Environmental monitoring includes monitoring of air quality, soils and water quality.
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Air quality monitoring is challenging to enact as it requires the effective integration of multiple environmental data sources, which often originate from different environmental networks and institutions.
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Soil Environmental monitoring helps characterize these threats and other potential risks to the soil, surrounding environments, animal health, and human health.
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Soil Environmental monitoring plays a significant role in that risk assessment, not only aiding in the identification of at-risk and affected areas but in the establishment of base background values of soil.
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Soil contamination Environmental monitoring helps researchers identify patterns and trends in contaminant deposition, movement, and effect.
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Soil contamination Environmental monitoring is therefore important to identify risk areas, set baselines, and identify contaminated zones for remediation.
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Soil erosion Environmental monitoring helps researchers identify patterns and trends in soil and sediment movement.
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Soil salinity Environmental monitoring helps researchers identify patterns and trends in soil salt content.
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Water quality Environmental monitoring is of little use without a clear and unambiguous definition of the reasons for the Environmental monitoring and the objectives that it will satisfy.
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Radiation Environmental monitoring involves the measurement of radiation dose or radionuclide contamination for reasons related to the assessment or control of exposure to ionizing radiation or radioactive substances, and the interpretation of the results.
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The rationale behind this Environmental monitoring strategy is that most human pathogens originate from other humans via the sewage stream.
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Where E coli or coliform levels exceed pre-set trigger values, more intensive monitoring including specific monitoring for pathogenic species is then initiated.
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Continuous or quasi-continuous Environmental monitoring involves having an automated analytical facility close to the environment being monitored so that results can, if required, be viewed in real time.
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Environmental monitoring remote sensing uses aircraft or satellites to monitor the environment using multi-channel sensors.
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Interpretation of environmental data produced from a well designed monitoring programme is a large and complex topic addressed by many publications.
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