Water quality monitoring service based on space asset provided data, crowd sourcing, environmental modelling and reporting

The WONDER service aims at simplifying, digitalizing and standardizing the water quality monitoring progress in a way that provides its users with better spatial and temporal coverage of monitoring as well as cause and effect-relationships recognition. The project's ultimate objective is to develop an automated, cloud-based digital service for water quality monitoring which could be utilized globally. The solution builds on earth observation, global positioning, crowd sourcing, internet of things (IoT) and predictive analysis. The novelty of the approach is to combine Earth Observation data (available via National Satellite Data Centre in Finland), navigation satellite system located citizen observations and continuous water quality monitoring data into Sitowise Ltd.’s Louhi WebGIS-platform. The targeted users of the WONDER service include large infrastructure projects, energy production and other fields of industry with marked emissions or influence on water bodies. The targeted users can also include environmental authorities, who oversee surface water monitoring based on Water Framework Directive and other regulations. The added value of EO space assets comes from automatizing the environmental monitoring and reporting process as well as reducing the amount of professional field work required to acquire the source data for report compilation. In the case of in situ observations, the added value is the accurate time information obtained from the satellite positioning systems.