Overview
EOForChina is a research project funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Danida Fellowship Center under file number 18-M01-DTU.
The EOForChina project aims to exploit innovative satellite earth observation data products for operational flood and drought forecasting in China. The EU Copernicus programme and related satellite missions (NASA GRACE, GRACE-FO) provide spatially and temporally resolved observations of key inland water variables, including water surface elevation (WSE), surface water extent (SWE), total water storage change (TWS), actual evapotranspiration (AET) and soil moisture (SM).
The EOForChina project will develop efficient open-source algorithms to process these data and will map inland water variables at regional scale for selected regions of China. This will provide detailed information on how water resources systems respond to the combined stresses of climate change and human exploitation. The project will develop algorithms and workflows to directly use satellite EO data to inform hydrologic and hydrodynamic simulation models and decision support systems.
The techniques will be demonstrated and evaluated for selected use cases where project partners have access to existing decision support systems that are used in operational water resources management and flood forecasting.