Earth Observation in Support of a Sustainable Water Sector <https://www.slideshare.net/EIP-Water/earth-observation-for-sustainable-water>
Burjassot City Challenge basically consists of developing Adaptation to Climate Change activities using Copernicus Earth Observation data and products and Water Management solutions in order to enhance socio-economical and environmental values in water sensitive areas. We want to encourage participants to be involved in our challenge to study water-related negative climate change impacts and low-efficiency usage to tackle them and generate incomes.
Natural color RGB (bands 4, 3, 2) image of Burjassot Municipality (Sentinel-2B, 17th Dec 2017, 10-m spatial resolution)
Burjassot Municipality land uses (Sentinel-2B, 17h Dec 2017, 10-m spatial resolution): -1; – no data; 0: unclassified bright/shadow areas; 1: roads; 2: bare soil; 3: urban areas; 4: vegetated areas. Next step is to obtain seal surfaces and impervious areas from this data
RESEWAM-O AG is currently developing a study on “Urban Adaptation to Climate Change. Evaluation and Assessment of the Burjassot Municipality Drainage System and Proposal to Improve its Efficacy and Sustainability”.
The only way to address the huge scope of challenges our world is facing — clean water and access to food made more serious by a booming population — is to “bring in everybody into the conversation“, said Myronuk. “You have to get used to being interdisciplinary.”
Collaboration, engagement, outreach – the modern physicist is continually encouraged to keep talking and communicating.Felicity Mellor wonders if it would be better if we simply stayed silent (April 2014 issue of Physics World).
Felicity Mellor is senior lecturer in science communication at Imperial College London, where she is currently running a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council on the “Silences of Science“, e-mail f.mellor@imperial.ac.uk
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/2014/apr/03/the-power-of-silence
* The recurring silences of physics tell us that, for many physicists, intellectual progress requires control over the communication networks of which they are a part
* The most successful physicists have been able to strike a balance between coming forth and holding back
* Rather than being mutually incompatible, silence and communication form a delicate balance
* Delete the silences from speech, and one is left with incoherent babble. Delete the silences from scientific research and perhaps the result will be nothing but noise.
RESEWAM-O EIP Water Action Group aims to develop agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change activities using Earth Observation Remote Sensing techniques and Water Management solutions in order to enhance socio-economical and environmental values in water sensitive areas. Through a multidisciplinary scientific, industrial and administration composition, RESEWAM-O will study negative climate impacts in water-deficit lands to reactivate them and generate incomes.
RESEWAM-O’s main goal is to create an innovative methodology for water resources re-distribution by combining remote sensing diagnosing tools, economic feasibility studies, engineer knowledge and policy decisions to correctly manage all water resources, mainly waste water, and recover life in unprofitable areas. The envisaged end product is a robust integrated toolbox for water scarcity detection, diagnosis and assessment, optimum solution completion, and feasibility plan for water re-distribution, in principle applicable in any water-scarcity area of the world.
RESEWAM-O EIP Water Action Group wants to close the cycle of the different water resources, especially reclaimed water, in order to compensate scarcity and unpredictable weather conditions with the goal to developing a successful and balanced economical life style.
See <RESEWAM-O – Remote sensing for water management optimization (AG132)>