remote sensing for water management optimisation

Action Group RESEWAM-O

“Remote Sensing for Water Management Optimisation”

Ernesto Lopez-Baeza

2016 EIP Water Conference How is Water Innovation Succeeding in Europe?

Innovator Showcase Session in Pecha Kucha Style

Leeurwarden, The Netherlands, 10 February 2016

Action Group RESEWAM-

O

“Remote Sensing for

Water Management

Optimisation”

Ernesto Lopez-Baeza

[email protected]

University of Valencia, Spain

Case Study Innovations That Have Been Highly Successful and Less

Successful from Within EIP Water with Lessons Learnt

mailto:[email protected]




• Our innovation

• Earth Observation in Support of a Sustainable Water Sector

• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

• Why should RESEWAM-O exist? What purpose does RESEWAM-O serve?

• Is RESEWAM-O a success? Is it a “flop”?a mixture of both? Why?

• How did EIP Water help or hinder RESEWAM-O’s development?

• What recommendations would we give to other innovators? Lessons learnt?

• Water as Business Opportunities

Contributors:

Edwin Loarte, Daniele Cespi, Ana Pavia, Amparo Coll, Reza Ansari, Carmen

Cubillas, Francesc Hernandez

Contents




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Our innovation:

Earth Observation in Support of a Sustainable Water Sector

• Development & assistance/assessment in decision-making

• Decision support system for authorities in water resource

management

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“If MITIGATION is about

CARBON, then ADAPTATION is

about WATER” (John Slater,

MLA. Parliamentary Secretary for

Water Supply and Allocation,

Province of British Columbia)

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Our innovation:


Identify and recover water-stressed agricultural areas




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• soil moisture

• ET as E + T (separately!) in irrigated agriculture

• optimising irrigation

• efficiency and productivity in agricultural usage of water, which frees

up availability of water for other sectors such as municipal and

industrial uses

• satellite imagery can effectively be utilised to detect groundwater

regions

Our innovation:


(Smart) precision agriculture




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Water (and carbon) footprints

Our innovation:





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Drought monitoring and forecasting

Ansari Amoli, A., A. Sadeghi Naeini, S. Ravan (2015): Effective use of space-based information to monitor

disasters and its impacts. Lessons Learnt from Drought in Iran. http://www.un-spider.org/

Our innovation:





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Water quality

Our innovation:


Identifying cyanobacteria blooms with ocean satellites

(GEO Water Quality Group)




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LCT

Life Cycle Thinking

LCA

Life Cycle Assessment

(environmental aspects)

LCC

Life Cycle Costing

(economic aspects)

LCM

Life Cycle Management

(management aspects)

Standard ISO 14040 e 44

CBA, SLCA

Cost Benefit Analysis, Social LCA

(social & environmental aspects)

Our innovation:

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

“in order to consider a process or activity

green it is necessary to assess the

cumulative environmental impacts across

the entire life cycle of the product: raw

material extraction, manufacturing, use,

maintenance, reuse, transportation and

final fate. This is done using life cycle

inventory and assessment concepts […]”

C. Jiménez-Gonzàlez, D.J.C. Constable, Green Chemistry and

Engineering: A Practical Design

Approach, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim,

2011

Which approach does it help to evaluate sustainability?




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ISO 14040 and 14044 (2006)

Goal & Scope Definition:

• Determine the scope and system boundaries

Life Cycle Inventory:

• Data collection, modeling & analysis

Impact Assessment:

• Analysis of inputs/outputs using category indicators

• Group, normalize, weight results

Interpretation:

• Draw conclusions

• Checks for completeness, contribution, sensitivity analysis, consistency w/goal and scope, analysis, etc.

Why LCA? Standardised and holist approach

Our innovation:





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Carbon Footprint

LCA: Vineyard case study

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1.971

987

1

374

188

1,0

10,0

100,0

1000,0

2014 2015 Average

kg CO2 eq / ha

kg CO2 eq / 1000

kg of grape

Verify environmental effects

per hectare cultivated and/or

per amount produced (by

year)

11500

19167

0

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

kg

of

gra

pe

s

2014 2015

Our innovation:





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Verify the environmental effects of

agricultural practice: increase of the

carbon fluxes as a result of the

manure spreading

3

1.971

987

1

374

188

1,0

10,0

100,0

1000,0

2014 2015 Average

kg CO2 eq / ha

kg CO2 eq / 1000

kg of grape

Carbon Footprint


Our innovation:





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30

188

257

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

/ 1 kg ofbeef

/ 1000 kgof grape

/ 1118km byplane

kg

CO

2 e

q.

3

1.971

987

1

374

188

1,0

10,0

100,0

1000,0

2014 2015 Average

kg CO2 eq / ha

kg CO2 eq / 1000

kg of grape

Carbon FootprintCompare results with other

different scenarios


Our innovation:





3

1.971

987

1

374

188

1,0

10,0

100,0

1000,0

2014 2015 Average

kg CO2 eq / ha

kg CO2 eq / 1000

kg of grape

Carbon Footprint

Quantify the average social effect

associated to the CO2 eq. around 7k$


Our innovation:


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Why Should RESEWAM-O Exist? What Purpose Does RESEWAM-O Serve?

• Undoubted advantages of remote sensing

• Regular revisits of use for water resource management

• Area-integrated estimations

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Why should RESEWAM-O exist? What purpose does RESEWAM-O serve?

• capacity building

• Ethiopia

• Iran

• NE Brazil (Ceará)

• Colombia

• China

• …

• …




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Is RESEWAM-O a success? Is it a “flop”?a mixture of both? Why?

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Remote Sensing part ✔

Water Engineering part ≈

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How did EIP Water help or hinder RESEWAM-O’s development?

Thanks, Tom; thanks, Guido, …

… thanks to everyone there




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What recommendations would we give to other innovators?

Lessons learnt?

the science part (University) is clear and accesible

ready? …

… it depends on available personnel

the engineering part has to be secured

better from in situ resources (companies, collaborators)




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World Water Day 2016: Water as Business Opportunities

Turning Water Problems Into Business Opportunities

RESEWAM-O may generate new market opportunities with a “win-win”

character:

• Agricultural farmers/cooperatives

• new green market of more sustainable, saleable agricultural

products, developed in arid/semi-arid areas

• Companies supplying water services

• more freshwater available for urban demands

• Public administration

• revitalisation of areas out of production

• new agricultural food products

• reactivation of economy

• economising products and better Environment protection

• A NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

• a small/medium enterprise (SME) to coordinate this process

and mediate between the parts

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