European Fundend Projects

ID:
projects-645

fiwar:
LIFE95 ENV/DK/000110

Project_Acronym:
No data

Project_Name:
Remote sensing coastal zone management

Funding Authority:
LIFE

Call for proposals:
Environment

Focus Area:
Sensitive and protected areas management

Begin Date:
1996-01-01

End Date:
1999-01-01

Status:
Completed

Budget:
No data

Description:
Coastal zone management is an increasingly important aspect of EU environmental policy. The project seeks to develop improved means of assessing the environmental quality of coastal waters to facilitate the implementation measures aimed at protecting marine environment. Submerged vegetation plays a key role in coastal ecosystems and can be used as an indicator of environmental quality. The project seeks to develop a robust operational and cost effective remote sensing system for mapping submerged vegetation as a means to assess the environmental quality of coastal waters. The field exercise area of the project is the Eastern cost of Zealand. The projects seeks to develop a remote sensing system based on aerial photographs, airborne scanner data and/or satellite images, accompanied by a computerised decision support system. This decision support system will advise on the selection of input data and analysis methods in order to tailor the system for different coastal waters and different environmental management purposes. The system will combine remotely-sensed data with data sets from Geographic Information Systems and with background knowledge on vegetation characteristics. The remote sensing system will be applicable to different geographical areas by adjusting the background information in the database.

Resource:
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE95-ENV-DK-000110/remote-sensing-coastal-zone-management

Inland water types:
Coastal waters'