Capacity Development & Earth Observation

forLooking after Water in Africa

Benjamin KoetzDirectorate of Earth Observation Programmes

European Space Agency

New Technology Integration Sustainable EO uptake in Developing countries

•Continuous & Reliable Observations (EO & in-situ)

•Knowhow & Technical Expertise

•Technical Capacity for Data Processing & Management

• Integration in local Decision Making Processes

Institutional Capacity: User Engagement & Partnerships

Training and R&DCommunity

Building

Software tools & Infrastructure

Sustainable (Free) &

Operational Data

EO Science 2.0: Integration of new Technologies

Open Data Access: Democratization of EO data

2014 & 2016

Sentinel 1 – SAR imagingAll weather, day/night application e.g. floods, water bodies, wetlands

2015 & 2016

Sentinel 2 – Multi-spectral imagingLand applications: urban, forest, agriculture,.. Continuity of Landsat, SPOT

Sentinel 3 – Ocean and global land monitoringWide-swath ocean color, global vegetation, land/sea surface temperature, altimetry, lake water quality

Long-term Continuity and Access to suitable EO data• Free, full and open data policy*

2015 & 2016

OPERATIONAL

Sentinel-2 water body monitoringSimulated time-series - Egypt

Objective: Enable water authorities to improve IWRM by exploiting Earth Observation (EO) technology

Implement an operational Water Observation Information System (WOIS) for monitoring water resources Developed in collaboration with African water authorities

Transboundary Observation Capacity

Transparent tool for Reporting & IWRM

Sustainability through Open Source & CB

Open Source Tools:Water Observation Information System

Enabling the Use of Earth Observation Data for Integrated Water Resource Management in Africa with the Water Observation and Information System Radoslaw Guzinski et al., Remote Sens. 2014, 6(8), 7819-7839; doi:10.3390/rs6087819

Open Source

WOIS 3.0 in April

Citizen scienceLocal engagement & dissemination

Cloud technologyBridging the digital devide

Collaborative & open platform for large data volume processing & sharing for IWRM Hydrological modeling, flood mapping, small water bodies mapping, water quality & water level Supports algorithm development, sharing of data, tools & knowhow