Blue Dot Water Observatory
Grega Milčinski
Anze Zupanc
10.6084/m9.figshare.9121994.v1
https://esip.figshare.com/articles/presentation/Blue_Dot_Water_Observatory/9121994
<p>Water lies at the heart of economic and social development.
As it is becoming scarce, stakeholders need innovative ways to better
understand water conditions, predict risks, and tackle problems.
Cost-effective, yet reliable solutions for monitoring water resources are
needed, as ground-based monitoring networks are often too costly and due to
networks deterioration in some cases also unreliable. This is even more true
for developing countries.</p>
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<p>Being enlightened by JRC’s Global Surface Water project we
have built a service, which does not only show historic data but is also up-to-date.
Copernicus Sentinel mission, with its global coverage and short revisit time,
combined with an efficient use of AWS infrastructure resources makes it
feasible to do a global scale project with limited resources. The Blue Dot
Water Observatory is an EO-based solution that provides reliable and timely
information about surface water levels of water bodies across the globe. </p>
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<p>With this service, we also wish to demonstrate how global
monitoring of the environment using Earth observation data can be done
efficiently and orders of magnitude cheaper than before, if done in an
intelligent way. To make it possible to others to build on top of our
experience, we share all the code as an open-source. </p><p><br></p><p>This presentation was given in July 2019 at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting held in Tacoma, Washington.<br></p>
2019-08-02 20:54:09
ESIP Summer 2019
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing