Objective
The primary objective of this project is to construct and test a software package, SHYLOC, that allows users to combine a satellite image with digitised stream positions in order to determine the amount of surface water stored in a network of natural or man made (drainage or irrigation) channels over a certain area, at a certain time.
The package will, in principle, be usable for calibrating hydrological models for a wide range of applications but it will be targetted especially at wetland areas that are protected by national, European and international environmental legislation, The European legislation that is of primary interest is the Habitats Directive (92/43) and the target international teaty is the 1971 Ramsar Convention on the Conservation of Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat.
The accuracy of the package will be tested on four wetland sites of scientific importance - the North Kent marshes and the Pevensey Levels in the UK - and Lakes Karla and Mavrouda in Greece. SHYLOC will be compared to water level measurements made during the project and water balance calculations made for the preceding years. The total number of checks for each site will be eleven.
In order to ensure that the project meets the needs of end-users? a.n end-user board has been set up wllo will attend the meetings, comment on the quality and relevance of the work and guide future developments. The end-users are drawn from those who decide on the ernvironmental impact of water resource changes in areas of ecological interest.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology civil engineering water engineering irrigation
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering aerospace engineering satellite technology
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21020 ISPRA
Italy
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