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National RET and CUSTOMER
End user water
management tasks
End user requirements from the use of EO for improved
parameterizations of applied models simulating runoff generation, erosion
and solute transport
RET-GERMANY: A
Thüringer Talsperrenverwaltung
(TTV); Member of ATV
Reservoir manage-
ment for potable
water and flood
protection
> Improved land use classification will permit adequate prognostive
agricultural catchment management to minimize the eutrophication of
reservoirs supplying potable and industrial water in the provincial state of
Thuringia, East-Germany.
> Support of improved forestry management and protection against acid depo-
sition due to canopy classification.
RET-AUSTRIA: B
Amt der Kárntener Landesregie-
rung (Wasserwirtschaft)
Water resources
management and
flood protection
> The identification of land use changes and related runoff generating areas
will permit improved flood risk assessments.
RET-AUSTRIA: B
Amt der Oberósterreichischen
Landesregierung
(Gewüsserschutz)
Water quality man-
agement
> Adequate prognostive agricultural catchment management will improve the
eutrophication of rivers and the management of reservoirs in the belt before the
Austrian alps.
RET-FRANCE: C
Mission Environment; Region
Alsace
Land management,
natural resources and
environmental risk
monitoring
> Improved quantification of soil moisture will permit improved crop yield
estimation and flood forecast in the Alsace and in the Camargue region.
RET-FRANCE: C
GEMMES (groupe TREDY)
Consultants in geo-
logy and water man-
agement
> Inundated areas can be classified by microwave data permitting the
delineation of flood retention areas and reducing the flood risk.
RET-ITALY: D
Ente Autonomo del Flumendosa
(EAF)
Regional water man-
agement and supply
authority
> Improved land cover classification will identify erosion response and erosion
hazard.
> Areas with severe land degradation will be delineated, which hamper water
supply in Sardinia due to input of nutrients and sediments into reservoirs.
RET-FINLAND: E
North Ostrobothnia Regional
Environment Centre (NOREC)
Protection, supervi-
sion and scientific
research for nature
conservation and
restoration
> Improved land cover classification for approximately 20% of Finland.
> Identifying solute contribution from draining peat areas in northern Finland
with partly inaccessible catchments will improve related catchment and
reservoir management.
RET-NORWAY: F
Norwegian Water Resources and
Energy Administration (NVE)
Planning and manag-
ing reservoirs and
hy- dro-electricity
supply
> Multitemporal land use classification.
> Identification of landuse changes for an improved catchment and flood risk
management protection in western, eastern and central Norway.
RET-SWEDEN: G
Swedish Environmental
Protection Agency
do
Water quality man-
agement (nutrient
leaching into rivers)
and environmental
protection
> Improved prognostive agricultural management and crop pattern
classification will identify solute leaching source areas and sediment
contribution causing eutrophication of lakes under the control of the Swedish
Environmental Pro- tection Agency in southern Sweden; delineation of
protection zones around lakes will steer the inflow control to improve water
supply.
4. OBJECTIVES
The ARSGISIP project is
environmental challenges for sustainable
resources management throughout Europe, by its general
objective
> to promote the application of remote sensing techniques and
GIS integration in representative European regions by
verifying the
implementation of EO data for the parameterization of
demonstrating and
addressing the contentious
land and water
hydrological, erosion and solute transport models.
cost-effective
Table 3: Summary of ARSGISIP end users and their requirements
The collaborating ARSGISIP end users are organisations
responsible for the management of land and/or water resources
and require decision support through the application of
hydrological, erosion or solute transport models on a catchment
scale (Figure 1). The application of Earth Observation (EO) to
representative European catchments is the central focus of the
project's general objective. This follows the innovative approach
to use EO derived information as input for catchment models,
thus facilitating decision support for land- and water managers
throughout Europe.
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