GEO Global Water Quality Monitoring Activities

Steven R. Greb Steven R. Greb Wisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesArnold DekkerArnold Dekker CSIROCSIROTiit KutserTiit Kutser Estonian Marine Institute, University of TartuEstonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu

GEO Health and Environment Community of PracticeAnnual MeetingWashington DCJuly 23-25, 2013

Image Source: WisconsinView.org, SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison

GEO Inland and Coastal Water Quality Working Group

2012-15 WA-01: Water Task Work Plan

C1 Integrated Water-cycle Products and Services

C2 Information Systems for Hydro-meteorological Extremes (incl. Floods and Droughts)

C3 Information Service for Cold Regions

C4 Global Water Quality Products and Services

C5 Information System Development and Capacity Building

The goal of this component is to develop an international operational water quality information systems based on Earth observation

This component will integrate water quality data from multiple sources in a timely manner and through data assimilation of Earth observations with other sources of data such as water quantity, hydrodynamics, biogeochemical modelling, generate higher level information products such as trends and anomalies and additional “value-added” products such as fluxes and flows

This component encompasses both the collation and development of in-situ water quality databases and remote-sensed data, particularly space-borne data.

The component addresses both flowing and static water bodies, recognizes differing approaches to assessing their water quality and the linkages/interface between them.

C4 Global Water Quality Products and Services

Lakes Mendota & Monona -University of Wisconsin SSEC image

Develop 2012-15 Work Plan

DataProducts/Indicators Information

Knowledge/Decision Making Tools

Feedback

Fast Track End-to-End application

Task C

oordination

Component Suggested Remote Sensing Team Leader(s)

Data Arnold Dekker, Tiit Kutser, Menghua Wang

Products/Indicators Paul DiGiacomo, Stewart Bernard, Mark Dowell

Information Gordon Campbell, Hans van der Woerd

Knowledge/ Decision Making tools Chris Mannerts, Suhyb Salama

End-to-end application Steve Groom

Coordination Steven Greb, Arnold Dekker

C4 Global Water Quality Products and Services

Inland and Coastal Water Quality working group

Research Consultation Education & CB

Advocacy Applications

Image courtesy of Maryland Sea GrantImage courtesy of NASA Goddard

Five key areas of GEO Water Quality Working Group

Research

Funded by ESA, Coordinated by Brockmann Assoc.

The ultimate goal of the Diversity II Project is to support the implementation of the new 2011-2020 biodiversity strategic plan of the Convention of Biological Diversity.

The specific Objectives of the Diversity II Project are to provide for selected key parameters, status maps, associated change maps, status indicators and trend indicators. These key parameters for inland waters are availability of freshwater and quality of freshwater, reflected in its water constituents such as chlorophyll-a and/ or suspended matter concentration, as well as by its temperature.

The products shall be provided on a global scale by producing results for at least 300 large perennial inland waters and covering a time range from 2002 to 2012.   

Global Lakes Sentinel Services

EU R&D Project, 3 years, 2013-15

Objectives• Setting up a system to handle the enormous amount of Sentinel 2• and Sentinel 3 data• Generation and distribution of lake water quality products (globally)

Key challenges• Algorithms, SIOPs, AC including adjacency effects, HAB, data mining• Data Volumes- suitable IT Infrastructure

S2 1 TB/day (L1), S3 2 TB/day (L1+L2)

Coordinator: Steef Peters, Water Insight NL• SYKE(Fi), EOMAP (D), Free Uni. Amst. (NL), BC (D), • CNR(I), Tartu Obs. (EE), BG(S)

Project Coordinator- Andrew Tyler, University of Stirling, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, University of Dundee, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Plymouth Marine Lab.

•5 -year duration (2012-2017)

•Objectiveso Investigate state of the lakeso Lake response to climate variableso Generate time series of water quality and surface temperatureo Link to catchment landuse and meteorological forcing data

•Work Programo Large In situ componento Focuses on MERIS archives and potential Sentinel 3o Linkage to ecosystem modeling

The Global Lake Temperature Collaboration (GLTC) began in the fall of 2010 to assemble an international group of investigators with interest in and access to global lake temperature records (both in situ and satellite-based). The GLTC has over 50 investigators Held a workshop in 2012 to bring together all international project participants in a common location to:

• share data• examine patterns and trends • perform comparative analysis • compile a global lake temperature database • publish results from the GLTC project.

Coordinator- John Lenters, University of Nebraska USA

• What are the global and regional patterns of lake warming (or cooling) over the past several decades, and are they concordant across space and time?

• What climatic and geographic factors control these patterns (e.g., air temperature, solar radiation, latitude, elevation, lake area, lake depth)?

• How do inferences from in situ records compare with those from satellite data (e.g., mean values, trends, interannual variability)?

• Do trends in lake surface temperature mimic those in deeper waters, and what does this imply for vertical mixing and stratification?

• What are the ecological consequences of the observed changes in lake temperature?

Project Questions

From C. Brockmann, 2012

Remote Sensing of Near Coastal and Inland Water WorkshopNASA ROSES 2011 E.2 Topical Workshops, Symposia, and Conferences

Colleen Mouw (University of Wisconsin) co-chairSteven Greb (Wisconsin Dept. Natural Resources) co-chairPaul DiGiacomo (NOAA NESDIS)Simon Hook (NASA JPL)Chuanmin Hu (University of South Florida),ZhongPing Lee (University of Massachusetts-Boston)Ru Morrison (University of New Hampshire)

Draft Strategy Report text

Integration schematic of the four fundamental elements of satellite remote sensing

Coincident with the technological advances………………

Education programs and capacity building through new demonstration project initiatives need to be promoted.

This important recommendation emphasizes the need for strong linkages between the entities that produce the data and the end users. This relationship will ultimately determine the success of these tools for future water resource management

Project Manager: Steven R. Greb, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Cooperators: Katherine Vammen, Assistant Director Centro para la Investigación de Recursos Acuáticos (CIRA), Nicaragua.

Colleen Mouw, University of Wisconsin, Madison Space Science and Engineering Center

Monitoring Water Quality in Lake Nicaragua by Satellite Remote Sensing

An IEEE Water for the World Demonstration ProjectReport completed Dec. 2012

Current and New Initiatives for 2013-2014

•Webinar Series

•COST Proposal (Tiit K.)

•IOCCG working group

•Develop linkages and new initiatives with GEO-Health SBA

Current and New Initiatives for 2013-2014

•Webinar Series

•COST Proposal (Tiit K.)

•IOCCG working group

•Develop linkages and new initiatives with GEO-Health SBA• Water Borne Diseases • Harmful Algal Blooms