Description du projet
Cartographier la disponibilité de l’eau et la conformité de son utilisation pour rationaliser la consommation
La pénurie d’eau douce devrait gravement affecter la sécurité alimentaire mondiale dans les années à venir. Garantir une distribution judicieuse de l’eau est désormais une priorité. En fournissant des services de cartographie pertinents au niveau mondial, le projet WaterSENSE, financé par l’UE, entend documenter la disponibilité de l’eau et optimiser son utilisation afin de faciliter la mise en œuvre des mesures les plus urgentes. Les informations collectées, qui combinent les méthodes d’observation de la Terre, les modèles hydrologiques et les données locales, seront facilement accessibles. Une autre valeur ajoutée du projet sera un service «d’audit de l’eau», qui surveillera la conformité de l’utilisation locale par rapport aux réglementations et aux droits établis. Les premières applications auront lieu en Australie, aux Pays-Bas et en Afrique du Sud. Par ailleurs, les services d’information WaterSENSE devraient s’améliorer graduellement grâce à l’intégration progressive de fonctions avancées telles que les algorithmes de traitement des données.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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
Mots‑clés
Programme(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
Régime de financement
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
6703 CT Wageningen
Pays-Bas
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.