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http://copernicus4regions.eu/stories/understanding-city-context Contact information Jiri Ctyroky City Devepoment Authority Praha Source GMES4Regions initiative Satellite-based monitoring service for coastal water quality The City of Barcelona invests in cutting-edge satellite technology to monitor water quality. The Barcelona City Council expressed the interest to start using satellite data to help the city monitor contamination and water quality in a revolutionary way. Barcelona’s environmental management team need to monitor coastal water quality as part of the Integral Management Programme for the coastal area. Starlab’s solution based on satellite data revealed to be an innovative way to do this. The water quality service uses high resolution optical images (MERIS and MODIS, 300 meters) providing parameters such as total suspended matter, chlorophyll and transparency. The final output are georeferenced maps covering the coast. The process is automated and continuously tracks the database of satellite images to provide the most up-to-date product as quickly as possible. For a correct and continuous delivery of the products, the service chain includes an internal quality control. The products are available through: the City Council’s website, which informs on the characteristics of the water at the city’s beaches and a mobile phone application, available on the website, which allows citizens to view the maps on their smartphone. Impact – Benefits Starlab’s solution provides an online service presenting coastal water quality indicators based on satellite data. The data is updated every hour, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week and is accessible to city experts and the general public. Data is delivered in the form of maps that offer qualitative information on the relevant environmental parameters. The service includes an alert system to warn about potential dangers. Barcelona’s environmental management team now has a valuable resource at their disposal to complement the other environmental measurements they already have. 
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http://copernicus4regions.eu/stories/satellite-based-monitoring-service-for-coastal-water-quality Contact information Francesc Soler Head of Integrated Coastal Management Programme Barcelona City Council
GMES4Regions initiative Ocurrence and transport of pesticides in the hydrosphere Optimisation of monitoring of surface and groundwater pollution in the Czech Republic caused by pesticides use in agriculture Dealing with water pollution caused by the use of pesticides in agriculture require assessment of contamination, prediction of pesticide loads in hydrosphere and provision of information on pesticide behavior in soil and water environment. A comprehensive and effective pesticide monitoring programme would allow the determination of complex pesticide contamination of hydrosphere of the Czech Republic including providing specific vulnerability maps of surface and ground water as well as pesticide risk areas delineation. The GMES services provide a framework for sustainability of such downstream services offering a clear long-term EO data access policy as well as an intermediate global biophysical products to be utilised for crop cover products. The lack of spatial data on the use of pesticides and their distribution requires new approaches to deal with this phenomenon. The alternative method is to produce agricultural crop maps that could be derived from time series of satellite imagery acquired within the crop vegetation season. Impact – Benefits Remote sensing represents the only monitoring tool that provides regular information about the development of crop cover in arable areas throughout the year. Thanks to such a crop map, the evaluation of soil cover impact on water flow, pesticide transport and groundwater contamination can be performed. Also it supports the localisation of frequent applications of specific pesticides that are based on information collected by State Phytosanitary Administration, knowledge of soil utilisation and climatic conditions. 
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http://copernicus4regions.eu/stories/ocurrence-and-transport-of-pesticides-in-the-hydrosphere Contact information Kodes Vit Department Manager, Hydrology Division Water Quality Departmen Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI)
GMES4Regions initiative Wastemon A mapping and monitoring service to improve waste management practices and the detection of illegal landfills ARPA Puglia, the Apulia Agency for Environmental Safety and The Urban Planning Office of the Conversano Municipality were interested in a support tool to aid compliance with European, Italian and regional directives on waste management and landfill monitoring and were willing to use innovative EO-based technology. Their expectation was to integrate Wastemon products in their current waste monitoring systems. The users aimed to apply the project’s results to adopt a monitoring and prevention strategy for illegal landfilling at the municipal level. The interest of the users is focused on the monitoring of buried or near-surface illegal landfills, surface landfills, tyre waste and illegal industrial waste disposal. Following an analysis of the users’ requirements and of the business opportunities for EO data in waste management, the following four services were offered by the Wastemon project: -Service 1A: Detection of sites with potential buried waste. -Service 1B: Support for in-situ investigations and monitoring of sites known to have buried waste. -Service 2: Detection of sites with potential surface waste. -Service 3: Mapping of active landfills. Planetek Italia has already implemented some of the above services by developing products for Conversano, a municipality located in the Puglia Region (South Italy).
Impact – Benefits At the end of the testing activity, the resulting products were delivered directly to the Apulian local user, the Urban Planning Office of Conversano Municipality. The user showed great interest in the results, assessed them as a useful source of support information for its current cartography updating and to complete the understanding of its local land development. The satellite-derived products were evaluated as an effective way to optimise the traditional monitoring activity and a complementary instrument to address the more frequent phenomena of illegal exploitation of land resources. The final results were evaluated as a very useful tool to take operational and binding decision in a faster, more accurate and economic way. 
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