Task Force Water Governance for border regions
Project fiche for project ideas and proposals 2nd meeting 8.11.2013
Subject: Crisis Management & Flood Control
Date: 01-10-2013
Yes, I participate at the second meeting of the Task Force on 8th November 2013
Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.)
Institute: Universiteit Twente / Faculteit ITC / Afdeling Water Resources
Contact person: Tom Rientjes
Postal address: Hengelosestraat 98
Visiting address: Universiteit Twente / Fac. ITC
Postal code: 7514 AE
City: Enschede
Country: Nederland
Telephone: 053-4874232
E-mail: t.h.m.rientjes@utwente.nl
The Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) excels in remote sensing application in earth sciences
in particular water resources, natural sciences and earth system analysis.
Titel & Project proposal
Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): Technical.
Title: Earth observation for Water Resource Management and Modelling.
Brief description of the project: The projects aim at use of Satellite remote sensing for (improved) water management and
modeling. By the availability of high resolution earth observation data in time-space domains there is wide range of
applications to advance in water management, in modeling but also in disaster, vulnerability and risk assessment. Simple
applications are in high resolution inundation and drought modeling (e.g. use of LIDAR DEM data of < 1m2 resolution, use
of LANDSAT 8 land cover data, use of Jason for flood level altimetry) but also use of meteorological products
(rainfall/snow/evapotranspiration) in water resource management and governance. Three ideas to develop full proposals
and project teams are:
1)
Use of high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) for urban flood simulation and prevention
2)
Use of rainfall and evapotranspiration satellite products for improved rainfall-runoff simulation and forecasting
3)
Use of Altimetry data for space based water level observations
Alternative projects could be on remote sensing applications for drought forecasting, improved crop production in water
scarce environments and disaster risk analysis in urban areas.
(The main applicant has publications in each of the identified work fields)
Objective
Please formulate the project’s goals in a few sentences:
The main goal in general is to advance in water resource management and governance by use of to use satellite remote
sensing. Satellite products support applications in dynamic modes (e.g. simulation and forecasting of water quantity and
quality) or applications in static mode by land cover/land use/urbanization. For instance, altimetry applications in river and
flood inundation assessments are rapidly advancing in major river systems (Mekong, Amazon etc.) and carry a high
potential to directly observe flood wave heights and inundation levels from space.
Simple key question your projects aims to answer:
How effective are meteorological satellite applications in water resources management and modeling? and
What bias correction approaches should be applied to the respective products?
How to process the various satellite products to arrive at an workable unifying grid element scale (i.e. foot print area)?
Can use of LIDAR data improve urban flooding simulation and, eventually, forecasting?
How accurately can flood levels be observed form space (vertical resolution)? and can observations directly be used in
objective functions to evaluate inundation model performance?
Beneficiaries
Who will benefit from the project’s results: Water managers form water boards and governmental institutes like Ministry’s
of Public works for flood forecasting and disaster management.
Location
Where is the project located: The projects cover for a number of catchments so to test effectiveness of use of data in
system of various scale but also in different topographic, physiographic and climatic settings.
Actors
Lead partner:
University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-information science and Earth Observation (former ITC),
Department of Water Resources
Partners requested: Open to any who is interested to join. Ideally a number of partners across Europe could join so to test
effectiveness of approaches in different environmental settings but also in different Governance conditions.
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project: TBD but at least 2 years to substantiate on data acquisition, approaches and
findings.
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed: TBD based on partnerships
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind: FP7, Horizon 2020, INTERREG V or other such as ESA funds
Do you need help with finding the right funding? It would be good to discuss a possible setup of consortia for the Horizon
2020 EG call.
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG),
with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance
Project Development Team
Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487;
Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands
General email: taskforcewg@prvlimburg.nl
Contacts:
Alfred Evers: ajgm.evers@prvlimburg.nlm. +31 6 5495 6148
Harry Tolkamp: hh.tolkamp@prvlimburg.nlm. +31 6 5237 5690
Fred van den Brink: fwb.van.den.brink@prvlimburg.nl t: +31 43 3897499