Low-cost drifters: some applications for water monitoring

This study presents the design and implementation of low-cost drifters, along with different water monitoring applications. The first application presented is related to the tracking of marine litter from the Arno river mouth (central Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea), while the second one concerns the study of the dynamics of a volcanic lake in central Italy (Lago Albano). Both the implementation phase and the field experience benefited from an integrated approach of low-cost equipment, citizen science and numerical modeling.