Fields of Activity
CENTRE FOR HYDROGRAPHIC STUDIES
The Centre for Hydrographic Studies (Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos) is, within CEDEX, the organization specialised in hydraulic planning, hydrology, continental waters engineering and all those other aspects related with the quality of the resource.
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE - RESEARCH - TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT- INNOVATION - TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
HIDROLOGY AND HYDROMETRY
Floods
Resources
Droughts
Sedimentology
Gauging
- Water resource evaluation studies
- Flood studies
- Hydrological cartography
- Bathymetry of reservoirs
- Sedimentation in reservoirs
- Erosion of basins
- Gauging yearbooks
- Hydrologycal data banks
STUDIES AND PLANNING
Water supply
Energy
Territorial ordening
Protection works and channelling
- Techno-economic feasibility of hydraulic systems
- Investment evaluation
- Investment optimization Programming and priorities
- Operative strategies for hydraulic systems.
- Management optimization
- Demands
- Design hydraulic works
- Technical assistance in the construction of hydraulic works
WATER QUALITY
Drinking water treatment
Technologies for the reuse and treatment of waste waters
Desalting of sea or brackish water
Limnology
Analysis techniques
Water quality control
- Study of alternatives. Techno-economic feasibility
- Design of installations
- Characterization and correction of spills
- Thematic cartography
- Point and non-point pollution
- Biotic indexes
- Aquatic biological communities
- Eutrophication
- Special water analysis
HYDRAULICS LABORATORY
River beds
Structures
Fluid dynamics
Hydraulic devices
River morphology
- Tests in physical model
- Measurements in prototype
- Designs. Hydraulic structures
- Control devices
- Special hydraulic circuits
- Hydraulic machinery
- Thermal and chemical pollution
- Instrumentation
IRRIGATION AND TERRITORIAL BALANCE
Irrigation characterization
Socioeconomics
Agroforest handling of basins
Natural resources preservation
Territorial and environmental balance
- Water demands
- Irrigation programming
- Irrigation evaluation
- Predesigns and designs
- Quality of irrigation waters. Salinization
- Soil recovery
- Agrarian and forest ecosystems
- Water and territory
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