Inland and coastal waters play a crucial role in human health and wellbeing, in the global carbon and nutrient cycles, as well as supporting high levels of biodiversity. The Copernicus Programme is an European contribution improving our understanding of the Earth system, including water quantity and quality at regional and global scale.
The Horizon 2020 project “Water scenarios For Copernicus Exploitation”, Water-ForCE, will analyse the needs of different users from policy makers, researchers and industry to businesses, NGOs and general public, determine gaps in current Copernicus WATER portfolio, evaluate technical capabilities of present and future Copernicus sensors in providing the necessary information about water quantity and quality. The recommendations on the evolution of water services will be summarised in a Roadmap.
Six Copernicus Services (Atmosphere, Marine, Land, Climate Change, Security, Energy) deliver water and hydrology related services from Earth Observation, in situ and modelled data.
However, the current Services have some shortcomings:
💧 difficulties in getting comprehensive understanding of the global water cycle (water products provided by different Services)
💧 gaps in water related products
💧 unclear which Service should fill which gap
💧 duplication aspects
💧 finding relevant Copernicus products not easy for users
Water-ForCE (University of Tartu)
Tiit Kutser, Professor, Head of Remote Sensing and Marine Optics Department
Phone: +372 6718 947
Water-ForCE (GroundstationSPACE)
Linda Van Duivenbode, Board member
linda.van.duivenbode@groundstation.space
Phone: +372 6718 947
Carmen Cillero Castro, Environmental Engineering S-L. R&D Area
Phone: +34 982 284 150 EXT: 215
Go to our web page waterforce.eu, register in one of the relevant international working groups and participate in the development of the Roadmap
