Regulations
1. The Aims
The Geomatics and Environmental Research Center has the following aims:
- Performant research activity.
- Increasing the competitiveness of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia regarding high skills in the research center's areas.
- Creating the basics of theoretical and practical research projects.
- Developing research tools through purchases with research contracts.
- Identifying and accessing various fund sources for research projects.
- Encouraging undergraduates, young researchers, school teachers, business owners and collaborations from other areas to take part in the research projects.
- Running multidisciplinary research programs.
- Establishing collaborations with universities and research units from Romania and other countries.
- Supporting the members to take part at conferences, seminaries and workshops.
- Sharing the results of the research activities through different means of community information, by participating at conferences, by publishing articles, books, by issuing patents and through technological transfer.
- Including the activity of the research center in the national and international scientific community.
- Providing specialized counseling on problems specific to the research unit’s activity.
1.1. The Objectives
The Geomatics and Environmental Research Center has the following objectives:
- Topographic analysis of infrastructure projects: transportation, gas and water supply systems.
- Design and implementation of geospace data base according to the general cadaster projects.
- Implementation of geospace structures and digital networks for the general cadaster projects.
- Spatial analysis for the public transport optimization.
- Assesment of the real estate market according to the location in the urban space.
- Modelling of geospatial information to estimate the natural and anthropological risks of the mass movement processes.
- Geo marketing studies to develop certain businesses.
- Building a digital catalogue of cultural heritage.
- Impact studies.
- Management plans for protected areas.
- Assesment of the anthropological environment.
- Qualitative assesment of water: industrial waste water, rivers, lakes, et cetera.
1.2. The Research Focus
The Geomatics and Environmental Research Center focuses on:
- General cadaster.
- Engineering topography and monitoring the behavior of land and buildings.
- Hydrotechnical constructions.
- Photogrammetry and teledetection.
- Engineering geomorphology.
- Pedology.
- Hydrology and hydro ecology.
- Waste water treatment.
- Assesment of the environmental impact.
- Environmental cartography.
- Geospace data structures and geo processing functions.
- Numerical altimetry modelling of land.
- Digital catalogue of the national cultural heritage.
2. The Structure
The Geomatics and Environmental Research Center is run by a board of directors consisting in 3 members elected by the research staff for a 4 years seating. The board of directors' decisions are validated by the director of the research center.
The director of the research center is elected by the board of directors.
The Geomatics and Environmental Research Center is operated by the research staff and by externals: licensed individuals and legal persons. Their main purpose is to globalize the purchase activities and to process the geospace information, the design information, the execution and monitoring of buildings and the evaluation of the environment indexes for elaborating management plans.
The coordinator of the research group is elected by its members. Depending on the type of research project there can be other temporary research groups—each lead by its own coordinator.
3. The Activity
The members of the Geomatics and Environmental Research Center are constantly involved in research activities. The members work to achieve all the steps of the running projects. They follow the regulations for fair and efficient financial and material resources management.
The members of the Geomatics and Environmental Research Center are involved in organizing national and international conferences. They also contribute to editing and publishing scientific journals.
4. Resources Management
4.1. Human Resources
The members of the Geomatics and Environmental Research Center are:
- The academic staff.
- The business environment affiliated to research projects.
4.2. Material Resources
The Geomatics and Environmental Research Center's activities are operated:
- In the offices of the Department of Cadastre, Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering.
- In the laboratories ran by the academic staff of the following programs: Land and Cadastral Surveying, Urban Engineering and Regional Development and Environmental Engineering.
The main activities are in the Geomatics Laboratory, in the Topography – Cadastre Laboratory and in the Earth Sciences Laboratory, respectively. These facilities are equipped with modern devices, measuring tools and hardware and software equipment.
4.3. Financial Resources
The financial resources of the Geomatics and Environmental Research Center are from:
- Research funds.
- Research contracts.
- Design contracts.
- Service providers contracts.
- Funding from the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia.
- Sponsorships.
- Donations.
- E.U. funds.
The financial resources are managed by the board of directors for the following activities:
- The development and maintenance of the research materials.
- Covering the operation and maintenance costs.
- Supporting the exchange, documentation, study and the research programs.
- Supporting the members' participation to conferences—payment of participation and publication fees.
- Organizing national and international conferences.
- Editing scientific journals.
- Running research projects.
- Developing the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia.
5. Final Provisions
The Geomatics and Environmental Research Center operates after the Regulations are approved by the Senate of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia.
The activity of the Geomatics and Environmental Research Center follows the Annual Research Plan approved by the Senate of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia.
The research results are presented in a report issued every 5 years.