European Fundend Projects

ID:
projects-136

fiwar:
607325

Project_Acronym:
AQUA-USERS

Project_Name:
AQUA-USERS: AQUAculture USEr driven operational Remote Sensing information services

Funding Authority:
FP7

Call for proposals:
No data

Focus Area:
SPA.2013.1.1-06

Begin Date:
2013-09-17

End Date:
2016-11-01

Status:
Completed

Budget:
€ 003 214 775.80

Description:
"The GMES downstream project ""AQUAculture USEr driven operational Remote Sensing information services"" (AQUA-USERS) will be a highly user driven project to provide user relevant and timely information to aquaculture industries based amongst others on historic ENVISAT, future Sentinel 3 (and 2) data and innovative optical in-situ measurements. The key purpose of AQUA-USERS is to develop, together with users, an application (app or web based) that brings together satellite information on optical water quality and temperature and (users and partners collected) in-situ observations also on optical water quality, temperature and ecological parameters. Additionally the application will collect relevant weather prediction data and met-ocean data (wind, waves etc) from e.g. MyOcean-2 and models that are run by partners on a routine basis. The application and underlying database and decision support system will link the information to a set of (user determined) possible management decisions. Specific focus during the project will be put on the development of indicators based on EO-data for aquaculture management including indicators for HAB events. We aim at high user uptake and economic sustainability. In 5 countries (Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, UK and Portugal) aquaculture sites will be monitored during 3 intensive case-studies. GMES Satellite products will provide the users (federated in the User Board) with further insights in the characterization of their sites and in the management of operations during adverse conditions."

Resource:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/607325

Inland water types:
Coastal waters'