Project description
Addressing water challenges via the Copernicus programme
As the Copernicus programme provides water-related products through all its six services (atmosphere, land, marine, climate change, security, emergency), the H2020 call, 'Copernicus evolution: Mission exploitation concept for WATER', aimed to achieve a more tailored solution. EU-funded Water-ForCE proposes to develop a roadmap for the water component of the Copernicus services. The roadmap will define the way for delivering water cycle-related services (precipitation; soil moisture; lakes, rivers, wetlands extent, water content and water quality; coastal water quality, etc.), summarise technical requirements for future satellite missions, develop higher level biogeochemical products, and foster closer cooperation between remote sensing, in situ and modelling communities to build an optimal water service that provides necessary information to policymakers, managers, researchers and the general public.
Objective
Unprecedented availability of free-to-access satellite data from the Copernicus programme has started to transform approaches to the assessment, monitoring and sustainable management of our aquatic environments. However, whilst the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service delivers the first generation of inland water quantity and quality products, other directly related products are fragmented across other services (e.g. EMS, C3S, CMEMS, CAMS, CIS). R&D capabilities have rapidly expanded through H2020 and ESA projects working on inland water challenges, but lack of coordination has led to a fragmented approach to evolving the service components and some confusion in a potentially broad user community. Thus, this expansion has not been matched by uptake of these products by decision makers, monitoring agencies, industry or the wider public. Water-ForCE will co-create a Roadmap for the development of the next phase of Copernicus Inland Water Services with the space sector, research community, policy, industry and third sector. The Roadmap will be benchmarked against community requirements, recommending services that should be delivered centrally by Copernicus and innovation opportunities that are better suited for business and research development. The Roadmap will also provide the strategy to ensure effective uptake of water-related services by end users, further support the implementation of relevant directives and policies and evidence policy development. This cross-disciplinary approach will align in situ and remote observation as this is essential to furthering the exploitation of operational observation platforms. A strategy to integrate in situ networks will be defined, integrating approaches to product validation and filling observation gaps and thus strengthen user confidence. Technical requirements for the future Copernicus sensors will also be specified for optimal inland water monitoring needs and future service development.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksdata networks
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
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2274 EA VOORBURG
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08031 Barcelona
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08031 Barcelona
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2600 Berchem Antwerpen
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PL1 3DH Plymouth
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12489 Berlin
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024053 Bucharest
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106 82 ATHINA
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FK9 4LA Stirling
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2611 AX Delft
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51014 Tartu
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060031 BUCURESTI
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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27004 Lugo
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00185 Roma
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2400 Mol
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1180 Wien
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08193 Bellaterra
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1000 Ljubljana
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6716 BR Ede
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