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Project Sustainable Management of Water Resources by Automated Real-Time Monitoring

- ALERT aims to develop a radically different strategy for monitoring and managing the impact of climatic change and land-use practice on scarce water resources. Innovative ALERT technology will be designed that will allow the near real-time measurement of geoelectric,hydrology and hydrochemical properties, virtually "on demand", thereby giving early warning of potential threats to ecosystems, and
vulnerable water systems. The project will focus primarily on coastal zones where aquifers are under threat from over-exploitation, rising sea levels, anthropogenic pollutants and seawater intrusion.

Project number 505329
Subject(s) ANALYSIS AND TESTS , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY
Acronym ALERT
Geographical coverage United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Tunisia, Morocco
Budget (in €) 3475818
Programme INCO MED (FP6)
Web site http://coastal-alert.bgs.ac.uk
Objectives - New and proven sensors and data capture devices will be permanently deployed in-situ, within a unified platform (ALERT hydro-station) at a test site in Almería, Spain. The site will be interrogated from the office by novel modem/telemetric and satellite links to provide volumetric images of the subsurface at regular intervals; thereby obviating the need for expensive repeat surveys and manual intervention.
 
- New 3D/4D time-lapse image reconstruction algorithms will be developed for distributed buried and borehole arrays. The volumetric electrical images (in space and time) will be transformed into hydrology
properties and processes through the further development of mathematical relationships, derived from controlled laboratory studies.These datasets will be used to constrain a predictive hydrogelogical modelling capability. Innovative statistical techniques will be developed to assist up-scaling from the site model to catchment scale.
- A web-based GIS will be designed with new data fusion, risk analysis and decision support tools to facilitate the sustainable management of water resources in coastal zones. Scenario modelling based
on stochastic and Bayesian networks will address the wider societal implications of the proposed work, including the economic, cultural and political issues, in the context of current and planned EU directives.
Period [01/06/2004 - 01/06/2007]

Partners

  • NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
    British Geological Survey (BGS)
    Coordinator acts as project coordinator
    Type
    Country United Kingdom
    Web site http://www.bgs.ac.uk/
    Contact Dr. D Ogilvy Richard,
    Position: General coordinator of the project
    Phone/fax: ,
    Email:

Funding sources

  • European Commission
    Source European Commission
    Programme INCO MED
    Type
    Funding rate 69
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