World Water Week: OiEau on satellite observation (28/08 at 12 noon)
The theme of World Water Week 2024 (25 - 29 August) is ‘Water for a peaceful and sustainable future’.
Against a backdrop of climate change, with its increasingly extreme and frequent impacts, water resources are at the heart of crucial economic, political, social and environmental issues. In order to meet these challenges, OiEau has been supporting the deployment of spatial hydrology for over 10 years by leading the French working group on this theme and through field projects.
During the session dedicated to satellite observation during World Water Week, Blaise DHONT, Project Manager at OiEau, will present some concrete examples of the implementation of this decision-making tool.
* 28 August - 12 noon CST - online - in English only
OiEau, an association recognised as being of public utility, has placed cooperation, access to and sharing of data, skills development and the running of stakeholder networks at the heart of numerous integrated water resource management projects, carried out at all scales in more than 80 countries.
OiEau and its partners in the French Working Group on Space Hydrology will present an overview of the contributions of satellites to integrated transboundary water resource management (IWRM), focusing on the most recent innovations (SWOT satellites already launched and operational, TRISHNA to come), and the uses for taking action in pilot basins, particularly in Africa and Latin America.
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will contribute its scientific knowledge of the subject, as the French space agency that launched the SWOT satellite with NASA; the IRD will talk about various actions carried out in transboundary basins around the world. UNESCO and its Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme will complete the scientific basis of the Session as a United Nations Agency.
Finally, OiEau will act as a link between research and action in the field, through its expertise in IWRM and its links with basin organisations, in particular through the International Network of Basin Organisations, created in 1990 by our Association, which still provides the permanent Secretariat.
These complementary insights will enable participants to better understand all the issues and contributions of satellite observation, for shared, efficient and sustainable management of this common good.
Examples of projects
