What is the problem?
The Water Framework Directive prescribes routine monitoring of inland, transitional, coastal and groundwaters. At the same time, small scale or remote inland waters can often be difficult to reach physically by experts, making carrying out of in situ monitoring campaigns on a regular basis an expensive and time consuming.
How does the EOMORES service address it?
The EOMORES products provide solutions for water resource management and policy through products such as high-resolution time series and maps based on Earth observation data. These products can fill in the gaps in routine monitoring and provides easy accessible data on fast changing parameters, as well as on large or remote water bodies.
Main features of the services are:
- EO historical and near-real time maps of water quality parameters (surface temperature, total suspended matter, Chlorophyll-a – proxy for phytoplankton biomass);
- Quantification of phytoplankton biomass;
- Identification of algal bloom presence and time frames;
- Data for small scale or remote and inaccessible water bodies;
- Near-real time water quality monitoring of drinking water reservoirs.
