ISLA
Land and water management in Mediterranean islands using earth observation data
Co-ordinator : Dr. Santiago Castaņo
The ISLA project aims at implementing and testing a user-driven pre-operational application to support water
managers in their decision-making activities, providing them with specific and up to date information obtained
from EO data. A MODULAR software application will be implemented in a friendly environment (user menus)
for handling and combining remote sensing data with existing information (tables and maps), in order to solve
the most typical and urgent problems that water managers face.
The Consortium will focus its efforts on the following aspects of water management:
- Land and water management.
In order to plan viable solutions for water use reduction and water release from agriculture the Customers
require a user oriented tool for estimating the extent and location of irrigated areas.
- Snowmelt monitoring.
To know just how much water is potentially available, the Greek Customer requires measurements of
snowmelt. This needs the development and validation of a model to retrieve snow volumes from EO data,
evaluate complementary use of optical and microwave data, and the customisation and automation of
information extraction.
- Submarine spring detection.
In order to exploit alternative sources of water in Mallorca the Customer requires the detection of submarine
springs around the coast and the ability to estimate the discharge from them.
- General water balance.
In order to have an overview of the total water supply the Customers require estimates of the general water
balance. This entails mapping rainfall and evapotranspiration and the development of a general hydrological
water balance model.
contact :
Bernard Denore
Pinzon 2-4
46003 Valencia
Spain
bdenoreb@nexo.es
web site :
http://ewse.ceo.org/anonymous/construct/build.pl/689910
