FRESHMON Water Monitoring Services, Karin Schenk, EOMAP

Session: Use of Space in different application fields

Environment: FRESHMON Water Monitoring Services, Karin Schenk, EOMAP

29.02.2012 Oil spill detection

FP7-SPACE-2010-1 Collaborative Project, 36 month, Proposal number: 263287

Project Lead: EOMAP FRESHMON Water Monitoring Services

FRESHMON Consortium Main Objective FRESHMON Portfolio Project Progress Users Service and Product Examples Conclusion

Slide 4 FRESHMON Consortium

EOMAP

Brockmann Consult

Water Insight

Chlorophyll concentration CHL-a(g m -3) SYKE

EAWAG

Slide 5 Main Objective

Development of new service-line for the provision of Earth Observation (EO) based products for water quality monitoring in rivers and lakes at European level

Support national and international authorities implementing EU-Directives as well as private entities dealing with water quality

Images: Fotolia

Slide 6 FRESHMON Portfolio

Total suspended matter

Water quality monitoring Turbidity FRESHMON Services and Products Chlorophyll – a Water depth mapping

Yellow substances

Extensions according user requirements

Slide 7 Project Progress

Time schedule Start Dec 2010 – Nov 2013 Achievements Algorithm harmonization and INSPIRE conform metadata Over 250 EO based water quality products delivered Current and upcoming activities Processor installation on ground segment for Near Real Time (NRT) data provision Service Provision fully operational readiness Coupling of the EO products with of hydrodynamic model and in situ data

Slide 8 Users

Germany State Institutes for Environment in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria, Germany (LUBW and LfU) German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) Estonia Tartu Observatory Finnland Department of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki Marine Research Centre and Water Centre at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) Netherlands: Deltares, Netherlands

Slide 9 Service and Product Examples - Time Series

River Elbe / Germany 27. Juni 2010 Suspended matter monitoring 11:4013:2009:5511:30 UTCUTC

Satellite sensors: MODIS Terra, Aqua, MERIS, RapidEye

Suspended matter [mg/l] - 0 - 5 - 25 - 50 - 125 - 350 - 700 Land RapidEye 5m Cloud

Slide 10 Service and Product Examples – Chlorophyll

Slide 11 Service and Product Examples – Turbidity

Slide 12 Service and Product Examples – Water Depth

Water depth

Lake Constance WorldView-2

Slide 13 Service and Product Examples – Water and Land

Monitoring of water quality and land use change in the Lake Titicaca Basin (eoworld initiative, ESA/World Bank)

Southern Lake Titicaca Seasonal trend of parameter TSM 3,0 Coordinate: UTM E 509405 N 8186788, +/- 1200m South station 136 Frente a Taraco 2,5 MERIS data 2003 - Sept. 2011, EOMAP processor MIP satellite retrieved concentrations TSM equivalent from transparency measures in May 2003, Aug' 03, Okt'03, Febr'04, Jul'07 2,0

1,5

12.08.11 15.08.11 18.08.11 1,0

0,5

0,0 Total suspended matter [mg/l] oror[NTU] [NTU] TurbidityTurbidity [mg/l] [mg/l] matter matter suspendedsuspendedTotal Total 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112 Month

31.08.11

Slide 14 Service and Product Examples – Dredge Monitoring

Australia Dredge plume monitoring Woodside Energy: www.eomap.com/OWIKI-MonitoringDredgingPlumesandWaterQuality-180811-0823-14-2.pdf

Image: Fotolia

Slide 15 Water depth mapping

Echo sounding map Rottnest Island Depth [m] (West Australia) - 0.1 - 0.2 - 0.5 - 1 - 2 - 5 - 10 - 20 Satellite retrieved by MIP QuickBird satellite data July 17, 2005

Areas deeper than 22m: white

Ellipsoid: Existing reef/shelf not detected by echo sounding measurement

Slide 16 Apps – NRT water quality services on mobile phones

Solutions for many end users: Tourists, divers, aqua culture farmers, fishery, coast guard, offshore companies, ... Cost effective data access to serve many user groups

Slide 17 Conclusions

Water Monitoring Services Covering water quality requirements of EU-Directives Available in various temporal and spatial resolutions Correspond to specific user requirements NRT service provision Achievement of cost reducing

Challenges Cost effective data availability Combination of EO products with modelling components for a 4-D view of our ecosystems Improvement of european and worldwide coastal security with shallow water mapping feasible with Sentinel Synthesis of land and water

Slide 18 Thank you for your attention ! Please visit our websites: www.freshmon.eu www.eomap.com

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