the history of inform end-users activities
TRANSCRIPT
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mariano Bresciani, Monica Pinardi CNR-IREA
The history of INFORM End-Users activities
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Objectives: • To explore the end-
user requirements in terms of water quality products
• To stimulate project results’ uptake by the end-users and industry
WP3 - End-user interaction
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EUAB Members
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EUAB Meetings
Month 3 March 2014
WP3 End-user interaction 6 months
12 months
18 months
24 months
30 months
36 months
42 months
48 months
Task 3.1 End-user requirements
Task 3.2 Preparation of result uptake
EUAB01 was held on 20-21 March 2014 in
Venice (Italy) with the aim of performing a first
analysis about end-user requirements for
inland water quality products
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EUAB01 • Questionnaire on ‘End-users requirements’ • Presentations • Face-to-face interviews
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EUAB Meetings
Month 3 March 2014
Month 27 March 2016
WP3 End-user interaction 6 months
12 months
18 months
24 months
30 months
36 months
42 months
48 months
Task 3.1 End-user requirements
Task 3.2 Preparation of result uptake
EUAB02 was held on 17 February 2016 in
Brussels (Belgium) to update and incorporate
end-user requirements and to receive
feedback from the end-users on the progress
made.
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EUAB02 • Questionnaire #2 • Flyers
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Questionnaires #1 and #2 • Questionnaire #1 was submitted to more than 50
additional end-users, receiving 20 new answers (Total: 28 answers).
• Questionnaire #2 was submitted to a portion of the end-users that answered at the questionnaire #1 (16 invitations) and to more 9 additional end-users, receiving 13 new answers (Total: 22 answers).
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EUAB 01-02 Meeting
EUAB EUAB+OTHER USERS
List of all the end-users’ institutions participating to the questionnaires #1 and #2
INSTITUTION NAME COUNTRY IMDC Belgium Rijkswaterstaat The Netherlands University of Parma Italy Central-Transdanubion Water Authority Hungary Marine research departament Lithuania Eawag Switzerland European Environment Agency Denmark ARPA Lombardia Italy ARPA Mantova Italy Instituto Pirenaico Ecología-CSIC Spain University of Pavia Italy Provincia di Mantova Italy Comune di Mantova Italy Regione Emilia Romagna Italy Marine Research and Technology Center, Klaipeda University Lithuania University of Valencia Spain Pyrenean Institute of Ecology Spain University of Granada Spain University of Cadiz Spain University of Minho Portugal University of Gdansk, Faculty of Biology, Laboratory of Limnozoology Poland University of Bucharest/Department of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Romania Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute Poland SNPN (Société Nationale de Protection de la Nature), National Nature Reserve of Grand-Lieu lake France Pomeranian University in Slupsk Poland Aquatec, S.A.U. (Suez) Spain Po River Basin Authority Italy
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Main requirements • EO derived products are total suspended matter concentration, turbidity
and Chl-a concentration (preferences >80%), followed by the parameters describing the phytoplankton community and its blooming activity
• Nutrients concentration (P and N) and algal biomass are the two parameters commonly preferred among the biogeochemical modeling derived products
• All end-users preferred 5 m and 30 m as spatial resolutions, depending on the dimension and the typology of the study area.
• 1 week and 1 month are the principal delivery times request by end-users. • Standard deviation values is the most useful statistical information, followed
by median and range values. • All users chosen regression analysis as preferred methods for uncertainty
measures for satellite derived data. • For the accuracy of satellite derived data in comparison to in-situ data
difference in % from in-situ values are the preferred choice.
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Direct involvement of other end-users
• Thematic meeting • Newsletters • Brochure • Project with schools
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Meeting in the Mincio River National Park
• Meeting at Mantua Province
• Meeting with Po River Authority
Declaration of intent
Direct involvement of end-users Dedicated divulgation meetings
• Forum on the “Mincio River Contract” and organized by the Mincio Natural Park, the Rotary Club and the Order of Engineers of Mantua
• Working day to involve local end-users and students graduating in Environmental Sciences
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Direct involvement of end-users
• Presentation of the INFORM project in the annual meeting of the Hungarian Hydrological Society (6 - 8 June 2016)
Dedicated divulgation meetings
• Presentation of the INFORM project during short training of Msc. and PhD students on optical remote sensing at Klaipėda University
• Interview at the national radio station “RadijoGAMA” (Lithuania)
• Flemish Environment Agency (VVM)
• Antwerp Port Authority
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Direct involvement of end-users • Dedicated divulgation material
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Connecting INFORM to other projects
Macrophytes INFORM products (with SPOT5)
Research Centre in Systems Ecology and Sustainability (UNIBUC)
Société nationale de protection de la nature (SNPN)
Braila islands (RO) Lac du Grand Lieu (FR)
Monitoring the Harmful algal blooms of Karaoun Reservoir and Mantua Lakes using remote sensing
Direct involvement of end-users
INFORM products on water quality as PFT, Kd, TSM, YS (S2/S3)
INFORM product on cyanobacteria
BLASCO project - Lake Varese, Lake Pusiano (IT)
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Participation to topic events
Establishment of info-point on INFORM Project, demo activities and fieldwork with students, citizen, public authorities)
LTER (Long term Ecological Research) - 30 June 2015, From Mantua lakes to Lake Garda
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Progetto Scuola-INFORM” (“School project-INFORM”) with middle school students of the Province of Mantua
Project with schools
Involvement of school and students to collect information on macrophytes and on algal blooms (Mantua Lakes, 2016-2017 activity): • 1 meeting with professors • 3 meetings with students (3 schools – 6 classes) • 3 meetings with students on filed • Activities on field of classes • 1 final meeting
Hydrocolor App
Citclops App
iQwtr
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sentinel2-A
EO products end-user driven Invasive species (floating and emergent macrophytes) expansion in eutrophic fluvial lakes. Risk of hypoxia, lake burial etc..
USER REQUEST: where and when cut macrophyte stands and total biomass removed
65 hectares
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EO products end-user driven
Spatial analysis of Chl-a in Mantua Lake Superior. The yellow zones had higher mean Chl-a concentrations, and would be appropriate
for new in situ sampling sites.
USER REQUEST: which sites are suitable for monitoring algal bloom
Eutrophication in fluvial lakes. Algal bloom. Risk of harmful algal bloom (toxic cyanobacteria).
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
The process leading to the water’s “milky” appearance can be related to: • sulphur biochemistry under hypoxic conditions (precipitation of carbonates in form of
white suspension), • biological process during anoxic events (white colour is due to temporary
accumulation of sulphur particle within phototropic bacterial cells)
USER REQUEST: spatial and temporal dynamics
EO products end-user driven
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eutrophic lagoon experienced recurrent cyanobacteria bloom. Risk of toxic blooms.
USER REQUEST: where and when scum events developped
EO products end-user driven
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EO products end-user driven Dredging in Zeebrugge (BE) harbour Sentinel-2 2017 USER REQUEST: Time series of TSM maps
FEEDBACK: -The eddies in the harbour entrance are clearly visible due to TSM variations - Time series tell more about sediment management within and outside the harbour
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EO products end-user driven Dredging in Zeebrugge (BE) harbour Sentinel-2 29/05/2017
FEEDBACK: - Nice feature are the small scour vortices at the edge of the breakwaters
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EO products end-user driven Dredging in Zeebrugge (BE) harbour Sentinel-2 27/03/2017
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EO products end-user driven Dredging in Zeebrugge (BE) harbour Sentinel-2 27/03/2017
ISSUE with land mask
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
EO products end-user driven Dredging in Zeebrugge (BE) harbour Sentinel-2 27/03/2017
IMPROVEMENT: land mask improved based on SWIR band
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Model products end-user driven
Chl-a comparison between EO (left) and model (right)
Acolite-QAA Kd(PAR) as background to Kd(PAR) from UITZICHT
User Uptake Workshop
16-17 November 2017
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Final remarks • The interaction activities with end-users is
important and useful to guide the development and the presentation of EO/model products.
• Continuos feedback allow to elaborate improved products.
• Comments/suggestions/requirements are useful to delevop future satellite missions, EO and model products.