Lead partner for A2 : PML   

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Main aims of A2 activity :

Currently, each institution and country is developing and maintaining databases relevant to coastal water quality. Most of them rely on in-situ measurements only. Earth Observation satellite data (MODIS and MERIS) are available and offer a larger scale tool for understanding environmental changes that impact on coastal waters quality. This activity, therefore, aims to link existing in-situ and satellite databases for the Interreg ‘2Seas’ territorial area.

Targeted Publics :

• Stakeholders engaged in research and development who would benefit from European Space Agency programmes and/or from the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security provided data or services.
• Actors coming from institutions/agencies specialised into water quality control and from the society as well who are concerned by inventorying and sharing coastal waters quality data.
• Actors coming from Public Environmental Institutions concerned by sharing protocols and stating of the metrology art in the field of coastal water quality measurement.

Expected results :

• An inventory of all the existing databases existing over the 2Seas area.
• Combination of existing and new in-situ measurements and existing and new EO products.
• Sharing of existing information by harmonizing the data and the metrology protocols.
• Improvement and validation at a regional scale of Earth Observation (EO) products.

The deliverables are:

• The inventory of the databases available to the public in the WIS with the relevant links to existing database.
• The description of the in-situ measurements, the attached protocols and the quality control.
• A description of the EO data base at L1.
• A description of the EO data base at L2 (includes the validation of the L2 product).
• An EO data base and the in-situ measurements collected in ISECA to be delivered to VITO for implementation in the web server of A3.