The past decades have seen rapid advancements in space-based monitoring of essential water cycle variables, providing products related to precipitation, evapotranspiration and soil moisture, often at tens of kilometre scales. Whilst these data effectively characterise water cycle variability at regional to global scales, they are less suitable for sustainable management of local water resources, which needs detailed information to represent the spatial heterogeneity of soil and vegetation. The following questions are critical to effectively exploit information from remotely sensed and in-situ Earth Observations (EO): How to downscale the global water cycle products to the local scale using multiple sources and scales of EO data? How to explore and apply the downscaled information at the management level for a better understanding of soil-water-vegetation-energy processes? How can such fine-scale information be used to improve the management of soil and water resources? An integrative information flow (iAqueduct) is proposed to close the gaps between satellite water cycle products and local information necessary for sustainable management of water resources. iAqueduct aims to accomplish these goals by combining medium resolution (10m – 1km) Copernicus satellite data with high resolution (cm) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) and in-situ observations. It is to note that iAqueduct is in the progress and this paper provides a general overview of its concept framework and introduces some preliminary results.

An integrative information aqueduct to close the gaps between global satellite observation of water cycle and local sustainable management of water resources (iAqueduct) / Su, Zhongbo; Zeng, Yijian; Romano, Nunzio; Manfreda, Salvatore; Francés, Félix; Ben Dor, Eyal; Szabó, Brigitta; Vico, Giulia; Nasta, Paolo; Zhuang, Ruodan; Francos, Nicolas; Mészáros, János; Fortunato Dal Sasso, Silvano; Bassiouni, Maoya; Zhang, Lijie; Tendayi Rwasoka, Donald; Retsios, Bas; Yu, Lianyu; Leigh Blatchford, Megan; Mannaerts., Chris. - In: WATER. - ISSN 2073-4441. - 12:5(2020), pp. 1-37. [10.3390/w12051495]

An integrative information aqueduct to close the gaps between global satellite observation of water cycle and local sustainable management of water resources (iAqueduct).

Nunzio Romano;Salvatore Manfreda;Paolo Nasta;
2020

Abstract

The past decades have seen rapid advancements in space-based monitoring of essential water cycle variables, providing products related to precipitation, evapotranspiration and soil moisture, often at tens of kilometre scales. Whilst these data effectively characterise water cycle variability at regional to global scales, they are less suitable for sustainable management of local water resources, which needs detailed information to represent the spatial heterogeneity of soil and vegetation. The following questions are critical to effectively exploit information from remotely sensed and in-situ Earth Observations (EO): How to downscale the global water cycle products to the local scale using multiple sources and scales of EO data? How to explore and apply the downscaled information at the management level for a better understanding of soil-water-vegetation-energy processes? How can such fine-scale information be used to improve the management of soil and water resources? An integrative information flow (iAqueduct) is proposed to close the gaps between satellite water cycle products and local information necessary for sustainable management of water resources. iAqueduct aims to accomplish these goals by combining medium resolution (10m – 1km) Copernicus satellite data with high resolution (cm) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) and in-situ observations. It is to note that iAqueduct is in the progress and this paper provides a general overview of its concept framework and introduces some preliminary results.
2020
An integrative information aqueduct to close the gaps between global satellite observation of water cycle and local sustainable management of water resources (iAqueduct) / Su, Zhongbo; Zeng, Yijian; Romano, Nunzio; Manfreda, Salvatore; Francés, Félix; Ben Dor, Eyal; Szabó, Brigitta; Vico, Giulia; Nasta, Paolo; Zhuang, Ruodan; Francos, Nicolas; Mészáros, János; Fortunato Dal Sasso, Silvano; Bassiouni, Maoya; Zhang, Lijie; Tendayi Rwasoka, Donald; Retsios, Bas; Yu, Lianyu; Leigh Blatchford, Megan; Mannaerts., Chris. - In: WATER. - ISSN 2073-4441. - 12:5(2020), pp. 1-37. [10.3390/w12051495]
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