| projects-441 |
251527 |
WATERS |
Strategic partnership for improved basin-scale water quality parameter retrieval from optical signatures |
FP7 |
No data |
FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP |
2010-06-01 |
2014-05-31 |
Completed |
€ 001 954 453.00 |
Europe’s list of achievements in space research and applications have largely delivered through collaboration in ESA and through national efforts. Establishing the GMES programme EU sustains a competitive infrastructure and knowledge to support Earth monitoring. The transfer of these capacities to the public sector and policy makers needs to be realized through active collaboration along the full Research and Technology value chain (research-development-customer/user). As the inland and near-coastal waters are under the strongest anthropogenic impact, there is a need for a better and more efficient way to monitor their ecological status & processes, which is the underlying scientific goal of this proposal. WaterS focuses on creating conditions for strategic dynamic partnerships in the form of long-term cooperation between three excellent research groups with proven high competence and capacity in the field of remote sensing of optically complex waters from Tartu Observatory (Estonia), Stockholm University (Sweden), Finnish Environment Institute (Finland), and three successful and quickly developing enterprises with unique complementary expertise and tools: Water Insight (The Netherlands); Brockmann Consult (Germany); Vattenfall Power Consult (Sweden). The advanced research programme of WaterS consortium will be realized through the following transfer of knowledge programme: • Introduction of the state-of-the-art methods and knowledge in optically complex waters in Nordic waters by researchers of the academia to service developers in the industry; • Supporting the development of new open-service concepts in EO business by exploiting complementary competences and synergy; • Bringing together academic and industry partners in five countries to learn and get familiar with different research and business traditions, cultural aspects and skills requirements. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/251527 |
Coastal waters', 'Urban water' |
| projects-442 |
247998 |
COSUDEC |
Coastal Surveying of Depths with EGNOS to Enhance Charts |
FP7 |
No data |
Galileo.2008.1.1.1;Galileo.2008.1.2.1 |
2009-12-14 |
2011-12-13 |
Completed |
€ 000 456 011.27 |
The objective of the project is to create a system for enhanced surveying of coastal waters through using standard navigation equipment, as an alternative to the standard approach of using specialist Hydrographic surveyors and high precision instruments. Instead, we use a large amount of data logged by vessels carrying out their normal business, and later uploaded to our server for processing. By using a large amount of data, the errors from using less accurate instruments can be remoed. We believe this can be developed to provide a cost effective system that will enable much of the shortfall in surveys to be made up.The benefits of this are safer navigation to all vessels in coastal waters, in particular to the leisure, fishing and workboat sectors, and also greater information for the GIS community, coastal engineers, port, harbour and waterway authorities, and applications such as tide power or offshore wind farms.The system will use GPS receivers equipped with EGNOS to provide the required level of positional accuracy, and will use statistical techniques to remove errors from depth measurements from echo sounders that cannot otherwise be resolved.The data logged will be available both as survey data and as chart data. It will be made available in the IHO S-100 format, which is suited to chart creation by Hydrographic Offices and to the wider GIS community, including use in OGC Web Map Servers and Web Feature Servers. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/247998 |
Coastal waters' |
| projects-443 |
221753 |
GRAVIMASS |
Retrieval of global surface mass variations from space measurements |
FP7 |
No data |
PEOPLE-2007-4-1.IOF |
2008-10-01 |
2011-09-30 |
Completed |
€ 000 230 963.71 |
The circulation of geophysical fluids (atmosphere, oceans, continental hydrology) at the Earth’s surface induces global mass redistribution, and therefore gravity changes, as well as global deformations. Since its launch in April 2002, the GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) mission is measuring time-variable Earth’s gravity field, with spatial and temporal resolutions of a few hundreds of kilometres and 10 to 30 days, respectively, and allows the recovery of global mass variations within the entire climate system. The ESA mission GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Experiment), to be launched at the end of 2007, will improve the knowledge of the smaller wavelengths of the Earth’s gravity field. Thanks to several decades of radar altimetry, elevations changes of the oceans and ice-sheets are mapped with a high precision (at the cm level) and a high sampling rate (from 10 days with Jason-1 to 35-days for ENVISAT). However these missions only allow the retrieval of volume changes rather than mass. For example, sea level variations are not only due to fresh water inputs (from ice-sheet or glacier melting) but also to thermal expansion (steric effects). Continental water storage (soil moisture, groundwater, snow, etc.) cannot be completely mapped from space, as only the top soil layer (few centimetres) can be deduced from radiometer measurements. The analysis of time-variable gravity field (in addition to other remote sensing techniques) will allow closing the mass balance of the climatic system, both on a global scale and regional scales (river or oceanic basins). This project involves the collaboration between two well recognized institutions, with complementary expertises, the Institut de Physique du Globe, hosted at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg in France, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the USA. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/221753 |
Snow and ice', 'Rivers and estuaries', 'Groundwater', 'Coastal waters' |
| projects-444 |
605335 |
DEMOSYNCSEN |
DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRA-LOW POWER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK FOR METERING APPLICATIONS |
FP7 |
No data |
SME-2013-3 |
2014-01-01 |
2015-12-31 |
Completed |
€ 000 730 115.33 |
The SYNCSEN Demonstration action (DEMOSYNCSEN) is a direct follow-on of the very successful SYNCSEN FP7-SME-2007-1 ‘Research for SME’s’ project (Grant Agreement number: 222322) that came to a successful conclusion in January 2011. The RTD tasks of the SYNCSEN project resulted in an Automatic Metering Reading (AMR) system that included smart meters (Hardware and Software) and a collection system (network protocols and algorithms). The system has been tested in a controlled real case scenario. However, further verifications and minor improvements need to be done before entering the market. The main purpose of this project is to share common resources amongst the consortium partners to validate that the RTD technology created in SYNCSEN can be launched into the water utility market. The project aims to bridge the gap between the research results and the final marketable product; with focus on the specific necessities of the European water utilities sector and adding new business opportunities to this market. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/605335 |
Urban water' |
| projects-445 |
277616 |
FieldCopter |
GPS-EGNOS based Precision Agriculture using unmanned aerial vehicles |
FP7 |
No data |
Galileo.2011.1.7-1. |
2012-01-01 |
2014-03-31 |
Completed |
€ 000 967 959.07 |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an up-and-coming method in providing farmers with (near) real time sensing information for precision agriculture applications such as water stress monitoring, detection of nutrient deficiencies and crop diseases. FieldCopter provides state-of-the-art multi-spectral cameras on UAVs that deliver the right information in the right time on the right spot. The FieldCopter project develops a complete solution for UAV sensing. Existing components will be brought together and required high precision navigation of EGNOS will be added in order to create an autonomous flying camera that follows a predefined pattern.The consortium aims at a complete operational service and brings together the necessary competences assembled on the platform: the sensing aspects, the navigation expertise and the market knowledge. As the service is based on EGNOS, we can operate it anywhere in Europe. The partners combine market knowledge in the Mediterranean and higher latitudes, each with specific challenges. We will commercially exploit the results of this project in addition to the current business of the project partners. FieldCopter allows farmers to create economical and ecological benefits through optimal use of resources like water, nutrients (potassium, nitrogen) and crop protection agents. FieldCopter proves the potential of a European-wide precision navigation system and benefits from its operational continuity. EGNOS is a key enabler to develop this service. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/277616 |
Rivers and estuaries' |
| projects-446 |
605802 |
WIDESENS |
Water Network Sensors for Widespread Use |
FP7 |
No data |
SME-2013-1 |
2013-09-01 |
2016-02-29 |
Completed |
€ 001 326 817.50 |
Widesens aims to design and develop a prototype analytical drinking water probe and its complementary applications for in-pipe water quality measurement with ideal specifications for a wide deployment. These sensors will be based on microelectronic technologies (ISFET, IDEs and microelectrodes). As a first approach they will measure pH, conductivity, bio-fouling, oxidative reduction potential (ORP) and chlorine. Also special mechanics and electronics will be fabricated to achieve self-calibration and maintenance procedures, long lifetimes and remote monitoring. Finally, leak-detection will also be enabled through pressure sensors. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/605802 |
Urban water' |
| projects-447 |
630188 |
WETLAND-ECOSYSBIOL |
The hidden sulfur cycle in freshwater wetlands: an eco-systems biology approach to identify and characterize major microbial players |
FP7 |
No data |
FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG |
2014-03-01 |
2018-02-28 |
Completed |
€ 000 100 000.00 |
Freshwater wetlands are a major source of the greenhouse gas methane but can also act as carbon sink, storing currently more than one third of the terrestrial organic carbon. Understanding their intertwined biogeochemistry and microbiology is therefore indispensable to foresee their influence to positive and negative climate feedback cycles. This proposal aims to elucidate the identity and ecophysiology of sulfate reducing microorganisms (SRM) driving a highly active but hidden sulfur cycle in wetlands, which is not apparent from the low standing pools of sulfate and thus has been severely understudied. Since sulfate reduction effectively competes with methanogenic degradation of organic matter, SRM have an important control function on methane production in wetlands. Little is known about wetland SRM. This stands in contrast to the high diversity of evolutionary deep-branching dsrAB genes, which are functional markers for SRM, indicating a large number of yet undiscovered SRM in wetlands. The expected scientific outcome of this proposal comprise: (i) identification of microorganisms involved in the hidden sulfur cycle with focus on SRM, (ii) elucidating their substrate preferences and preferred environmental conditions, (iii) identifying their interaction partners, and (iv) linking their function to their genome as well as their major transcripts and proteins. This will be achieved by an interdisciplinary approach, where (i) structure-function methods like stable isotope probing are linked to meta-genomics and -proteomics, (ii) high-throughput amplicon sequencing of phylogenetic markers and metatranscriptomics is combined with controlled experimental setups under monitored biogeochemical parameters, and (iii) by targeted cultivation of novel microorganisms. This proposal will be vital for me to build up an own research group, to strengthen my international collaborative network, and to maximize my integration in the European Research Area. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/630188 |
Wetlands' |
| projects-448 |
630110 |
SOILMOISTURE |
Improving Predictions of Vegetation Condition by Optimally Merging Satellite Remote Sensing-based Soil Moisture Products |
FP7 |
No data |
FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG |
2014-09-14 |
2018-09-13 |
Completed |
€ 000 100 000.00 |
"Agricultural drought impacts global food security as well as financial flexibility of countries. Considering the natural variabilityof climate, agricultural drought is common phenomenon within appropriate time-frame, while the expected change in climateand the expected decrease in available water resources will further increase the stress exerted on vegetation. Precipitation-based indices are commonly used to trace the current status of the potential drought, while such indicators may miss theonset and only give reliable information about long-term events. On the other hand agricultural drought and its onset can beaccurately traced via monitoring of soil moisture, which has been recently shown to be a skillful predictor of vegetationconditions. In this study, soil moisture datasets from multiple platforms will be merged in least squares framework to obtainan optimal soil moisture estimate, while the optimality will be assured through the use of product specific error estimatesobtained separately using triple collocation error estimation methodology. Validation will be performed via investigation oflagged-correlation between soil moisture and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) which is very sensitive to theconditions of vegetation and can be accurately obtained from space through remote sensing. In particular, this study willconsider merging The Atmosphere-Land Exchange Inverse (ALEXI)-, Noah-, Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS)-, andAdvanced Scatterometer on METOP (ASCAT)-based soil moisture information. Resulting optimally merged soil moistureproduct is expected to have higher skill in predicting NDVI than individual products alone." |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/630110 |
Groundwater', 'Urban water' |
| projects-449 |
262925 |
CRYOLAND |
GMES Service Snow and Land Ice |
FP7 |
No data |
SPA.2010.1.1-01 |
2011-02-01 |
2015-01-31 |
Completed |
€ 002 828 859.00 |
The project is aimed at developing, implementing and validating a standardized and sustainable service on snow and land ice monitoring as a Downstream Service within GMES in a value added chain with the Land Monitoring Core Services. CryoLand will provide geospatial products on snow cover, glaciers, and lake/river ice derived from Earth observation satellite data. CryoLand will build upon, integrate and widen structural and technical capabilities of the project partners who have long term experience in running operational and pre-operational services on snow and ice. Users will play a key role in the definition of service requirements and in the validation of the products and services. A user group will be set up, and user training on use of products and electronic interfaces will be performed. Snow and ice products in near-real time delivery will be supplied with pan-European coverage, as well as with national and regional coverage. The project developments will build upon tools and processing lines that are available at partner’s enterprises. The portfolio of snow and ice products will be improved and augmented to better match the user requirements. An important part of the project will be the design, development and implementation of a network system for CryoLand services that will ensure interoperability of infrastructure by compliance with INSPIRE and GEOSS, and by integration with the Land Monitoring Core Services, the GMES Space Component Data Access service, and the required in-situ and reference data access. Full end-to-end tests and verification will be performed for the products and services in pre-operational environment, based on rigorous procedures and protocols for testing, validation and qualification. During the project second phase full performance demonstration of the system and comprehensive promotion and dissemination work is planned in order to prepare for the transition to a self-sustained operational snow and land ice monitoring service. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/262925 |
Snow and ice', 'Lake', 'Rivers and estuaries' |
| projects-450 |
820718 |
PANI WATER |
Photo-irradiation and Adsorption based Novel Innovations for Water-treatment |
H2020 |
H2020-SC5-2018-2019-2020 |
SC5-12-2018 |
2019-02-01 |
2024-01-31 |
Completed |
€ 004 969 748.50 |
About 2.1 Billion people live without access to safe water sources. Contaminants of Emerging Concerns (CECs) such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides and nanoparticles are increasingly being detected in wastewater and in drinking water around the world, in addition to geogenic pollutants, pathogens, antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes. Water treatment systems that remove CECs and common contaminants from wastewater and drinking water are therefore urgently needed. PANI WATER will develop, deploy and validate in the field six prototypes for the removal of contaminants, including CECs, from wastewater and drinking water. The prototypes for wastewater treatment will consist of (i) a 20,000 L/day multifunctional oxidation reactor, (ii) a 10 L/day photoelectrochemical system, and (iii) a 100 L/day solar photolytic plant. The prototypes for drinking water treatment will consist of (iv) a 300 L/hour filtration, adsorption, and UVC LED system (v) a 20 L transparent jerrycan for solar water disinfection, and (vi) a 2,000 L/day electrocoagulation, oxidation, and disinfection t system. These prototypes will be deployed in peri-urban and rural areas in India. The consortium will work closely with the communities at the fieldsites, and carry out water quality analyses, health and social impact assessments, and advocate for safe reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation, and preservation of drinking water sources. PANI technologies can find promising application among the agricultural sector, water-demanding businesses (e.g. textile, pharmaceutical), and the Indian water utilities. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/820718 |
Urban water' |
