Use of Satelite Recordings in Water Management (remote sensing)

Call for involvement of UT students and staff

This new partnership elaborates the use of satellite recordings for effective and efficient management of ground water levels. Key players are the Water Board Groot Salland (WGS) and the Incomati Catchment Agency (ICMA) in South Africa. Both organizations want to push the use of remote sensing data.

Satellite recordings can be applied within this strategy: Monitoring dynamics in water evaporation from crop enables estimating ground water levels. The next step in the years to come will be to elaborate the potential of this innovation at water board Groot Salland and in South-Africa at ICMA, exchange of experiences is aimed at.

The partnership seeks opportunities to link their project (supported by NBW) to UT students and staff to push the application of the concept in the Netherlands at water board Groot Salland and/or in South Africa at ICMA.

Interested UT students and staff please contact:

Sam-Peter Bakker, Waterschap Groot Salland

telefoon: 038-4557385, email: sbakker@wgs.nl

and:

Kris Lulofs, UT-CSTM

telefoon: 053-4894539, email: k.r.d.lulofs@utwente.nl