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Spatial variability inside a vineyard has been always difficult to be measured in order to valorize the enological potential of the grapes. Remote Sensing is a technique that can be used for improving wine quality through the identification of Management Zones in the fields and the consequent differential grape harvest. The technique is based on the use of Vigor Vegetation Indices, that allow to identify the variations of the grape growth and the composition of the grape in the vineyard, and the changes that happen over time. Agricolus software provides these features and it has been used successfully in some vineyards in the center of Italy.

As part of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/CE, ARPA Umbria performed in 2015 an anthropogenic pressures analysis on water bodies, in order to update the Umbria Region Water Bodies Protection Plan and the District Water Plans. Point source pressures, both civil and industrial, were analyzed. A complex methodology was developed, based on a matrix approach with a discretization of 100x100m grid and an algorithm to calculate the pollutant loads from the information available in the wastewaters database of Umbria region. Several geoprocessing models were created, with a Model Builder tool, allowed to estimate pollutant loads in surface waters and groundwaters.