AquaWatch Australia colleagues have a session a the
ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025 (June 23-27, 2025, Vienna), led by Astrid Bracher (AWI) and Sindy Sterckx (VITO). It is entitled
“The Role of Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy and Drone-based Calibration Data for Integrated Freshwater and Coastal Monitoring“. sub-theme B.02.09
Exponential growth in EO data volumes, advancements in drone technology, and the variety of data accessible via cloud-based platforms, present new opportunities to develop novel integrated systems that leverage these capabilities. In particular, the advancement in new generation spaceborne imaging spectrometers, such as PRISMA, ENMAP, DESIS, EMIT and the upcoming missions such as ESA’s CHIME and NASA’s SBG, can significantly improve applications such as water quality monitoring, especially when also combined with near real-time, in-situ water quality data streams, drone-based measurements and water quality forecasting tools.
This session will bring together water quality remote sensing scientists, modellers and data analytics experts, to showcase and discuss approaches for use of various types of remote sensing data, including imaging spectroscopy and drone imagery, for development of a fully integrated ‘ground-to-space’ data integration system, that support the production of ‘decision-ready’ information for water managers and communities that are dealing with increasing challenges in inland and coastal water quality world-wide.
The goal of the session will be to focus on the benefits and challenges of integrating multiple sources of data (e.g., either different Earth observation (EO) sources like optical/radar, or combining in-situ and/or drone measurements with EO datasets-, or EO with modelling), rather than focusing on only one EO data source or one approach to produce actionable water quality products.
If you are planning to submit an abstract related to AquaWatch Australia, please consider doing so under this sub-theme B.02.09, and let the folks at CSIRO know your plans (Alex Held, Janet Anstee, Zandria Farell and Flora Kerblat) so they can keep track of submissions and coordinate.
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