Descripción del proyecto
Un mapa de la disponibilidad del agua y el cumplimiento en el planeta para optimizar su uso
En los próximos años, se espera que la escasez de agua dulce afecte gravemente a la seguridad alimentaria global. Ahora, la distribución inteligente del agua es una prioridad. El proyecto WaterSENSE, financiado con fondos europeos, se encargará de tomar las medidas inmediatas requeridas para documentar la disponibilidad del agua y optimizar su uso prestando unos servicios de mapeo pertinentes a escala global. La información resultante, que combina métodos de observación de la Tierra, modelos hidrológicos y datos locales, será de acceso público. Otro valor añadido del proyecto será un servicio de «auditoría del agua», que controlará el cumplimiento de uso local con arreglo a los reglamentos y al derecho de aguas. Se empezará a aplicar en Australia, los Países Bajos y Sudáfrica. Se prevé la ampliación de los servicios de información de WaterSENSE con el uso de funciones avanzadas, como algoritmos de procesamiento de datos masivos.
Objetivo
Shortages of freshwater will be one of the most pressing problems in feeding the world this century. To optimize use of available water it is important to distribute it wisely over the various competing interests, in particular agriculture, which is responsible for 70% of all freshwater use. Irrigation is currently often unsustainable, while groundwater reserves are becoming depleted and many places in the world are suffering water shortages. Action is therefore required now to use space and in-situ monitoring systems, to create a better sense of water availability and optimise use across the planet. WaterSENSE will provide water-availability and mapping services for any place in the world at different time and space resolutions, based on integrated Copernicus data, hydrological models and local data. The results of these services will be open access so as to further develop value-adding services. WaterSENSE itself will deliver the essential value-added service of monitoring compliance of local water use against water rights and regulations (‘water auditing’). The first application will be in the multi-climate Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, followed by validation in South Africa and the Netherlands. Consortium partners already provide water-availability and water-auditing services in the latter two countries. Novel research in the project will develop scalable information services, based on advanced big-data processing algorithms, to determine variables such as evapotranspiration, irrigation water use, rainfall and soil moisture, as well as machine learning to allow automatic data processing and reduce uncertainty in the hydrological variables determined. DIAS services for data provision, as well as cloud hosting and processing of computational services, will be developed and implemented. Existing successful partnership models will be refined to ensure service providers in the water value chain achieve healthy business development.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringirrigation
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanets
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.2.1.6. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Space Main Programme
- H2020-EU.2.1.6.1. - Enabling European competitiveness, non-dependence and innovation of the European space sector
- H2020-EU.2.1.6.4. - Enabling European research in support of international space partnerships
- H2020-EU.2.1.6.3. - Enabling exploitation of space data
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SPACE-2019
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
6703 CT Wageningen
Países Bajos
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.