Development of a Spatial Information System for Water Use and Water Governance using Satellite Observations

Project number: 10221267

Project summary

The objective of this project is to develop a water information system on the basis of field and remote sensing observations, so that consistent and quantitative information about water quantity and quality can be generated for different management objectives from field scale to regional scale. The information system should be scalable from global scale to local scale and should be used to quantify water use and water foot prints at different scales. The project consists of four work packages:
WP 1: definition of requirements of information in relation to water quantity and quality for water resource management, system definition, and data inventory and set-up of field observation sites,
WP 2: development of the water information system and analysis of the relationship between water system components (interactions of land-atmosphere, surface-groundwater, water quantity - water quality, water-nature interactions),
WP 3: development of scaling techniques, by means of data assimilation, so that data and information at different scales are combined into a uniform framework, and
WP 4: application of the system to real world water management (drought monitoring, water quality monitoring)