Environmental Information Services  for Hydropower Plant Management

EO-Hydro is a project in the frame of the Earth Observation Market Development (EOMD) ESA programme. It aims at strengthening the European and Canadian industrial capacity to provide geo-information services based primarily on satellite data.

EO-Hydro is conceived to improve the hydro power plant management exploiting the newest space technologies. The on-line services on Alps, Canadian and Scandinavian countries are focused on water resource and security management. Snow cover, snow water equivalent, land displacement and runoff forecast are the main services provided by EO-Hydro. All services are based on the processing of satellite data.

• The snow cover maps are derived from the combined use of SAR and optical data.
• The land displacement products detect the surface deformations with millimetric accuracy. They are generated using SAR interferometric techniques.
• The snow water equivalent is estimated through application of the SAR technology in combination with ancillary data.
• The water runoff forecast is based on a model wich needs in input also meteorologial data (precipitations and temperatures).

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