Innovators III SPONGE
SPaceborne Observations to Nourish the GEMS/Water Global Network (SPONGE)
The SPONGE innovator addresses research priorities within the Group of Earth Observation Water Strategy and United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) related to water resource management. Â The project focuses on developing Sentinel-2 products for surface water and catchment basin parameters.
Innovators III SPONGE | |
SPaceborne Observations to Nourish the GEMS/Water Global Network (SPONGE) | |
DUE (Data User Element) | |
Land | |
€ 200k | |
Service Demonstration | |
In progress | |
Sentinel 1 : C-SAR Sentinel 2 : MSI |
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Maintenance of vital water resources is a global challenge, and requires global approaches. The United Nations Environmental Programme UNEP established the data access and knowledge management platform UNEP Live, and the Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS/Water) in order to provide timely, scientifically credible, policy-relevant environmental data, and assist member states in evidence based decision-making, action and planning for sustainable development. This project aims at the facilitation of water resource management information from Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 for the large global UN water community.
In the scope of the SPONGE project, we propose to demonstrate the potential of Earth observation to address this need. We establishing a 1-year Sentinel-2 pilot service and provide an assessment of Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 3 derived surface water and catchment basin parameters. In collaboration with GEMS/Water and selected National Focal Points, appropriate methods will be developed and validated using existing in situ monitoring stations, and subsequently test these methods to improve coverage in underrepresented areas.
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Odermatt & Brockmann, Switzerland | |
Brockmann Consult Gmbh |
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UNEP UNEP-GEMS : UNEP-GEMS Data Center at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology UNEP-GEMS-SYKE : National Focal Points of UNEP-GEMS e.g. the Finish Environmental Institute SYKE Group on Earth Observation (GEO) secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland : |
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Daniel Odermatt Odermatt & Brockmann | |
Benjamin Koetz European Space Agency - ESRIN D/EOP-SEP Via Galileo Galilei I-00046 Frascati (RM) ITALY Tel: +39 06-941.80653 Email: Benjamin.Koetz@esa.int |