European Fundend Projects

ID:
projects-002

fiwar:
101004157

Project_Acronym:
WQeMS

Project_Name:
Copernicus Assisted Lake Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service

Funding Authority:
EU Horizon 2020

Call for proposals:
H2020-SPACE-2020

Focus Area:
LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 - Copernicus evolution: Research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services

Begin Date:
2021-01-01

End Date:
2023-06-30

Status:
Completed

Budget:
€ 1 500 506,25

Description:
WQeMS focuses its activities on the monitoring of lakes with the aim to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service, which enhances our ability to deliver drinking water in all EU member states. The project exploits Sentinel satellite data for quality monitoring at a finer spatial resolution level, following validated processes with in situ data. WQeMS provides extensive information about water quality by building a multi-temporal and high spatial resolution monitoring framework. The goal is the optimization of the use of resources by gaining access to frequent acquired, wide covering and local accurate water-status information, by which citizens gain a deeper insight and confidence for selected key quality elements of the ‘water we drink’. The project addresses slow evolving phenomena such as geogenic or anthropogenic release of potentially polluting elements that can contaminate freshwater reservoirs, but also the detection of seasonal and annual changes in submerged aquatic vegetation in shallow waters, which is of high value as a quality indicator. The role of MKLab/M4D is to monitor fast evolving phenomena (extreme events), such as algal blooms or flash floods that can spill debris and pollutants into lakes, using Copernicus data and fusing with crowdsourced data when possible.

Resource:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101004157

Inland water types:
Lake', 'Water reservoir'