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Capacity Development & Earth Observation
forLooking after Water in Africa
Benjamin KoetzDirectorate of Earth Observation Programmes
European Space Agency
New Technology Integration Sustainable EO uptake in Developing countries
•Continuous & Reliable Observations (EO & in-situ)
•Knowhow & Technical Expertise
•Technical Capacity for Data Processing & Management
• Integration in local Decision Making Processes
Institutional Capacity: User Engagement & Partnerships
Training and R&DCommunity
Building
Software tools & Infrastructure
Sustainable (Free) &
Operational Data
Open Data Access: Democratization of EO data
2014 & 2016
Sentinel 1 – SAR imagingAll weather, day/night application e.g. floods, water bodies, wetlands
2015 & 2016
Sentinel 2 – Multi-spectral imagingLand applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT
Sentinel 3 – Ocean and global land monitoringWide-swath ocean color, global vegetation, land/sea surface temperature, altimetry, lake water quality
Long-term Continuity and Access to suitable EO data• Free, full and open data policy*
2015 & 2016
OPERATIONAL
Objective: Enable water authorities to improve IWRM by exploiting Earth Observation (EO) technology
Implement an operational Water Observation Information System (WOIS) for monitoring water resources Developed in collaboration with African water authorities
Transboundary Observation Capacity
Transparent tool for Reporting & IWRM
Sustainability through Open Source & CB
Open Source Tools:Water Observation Information System
Enabling the Use of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Water Resource Management in Africa with the Water Observation and Information System Radoslaw Guzinski et al., Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7819-7839; doi:10.3390/rs6087819
Open Source
WOIS 3.0 in April