Programme: PRISMA SCIENZA scientific projects, funded by Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Project title: PRISMA Products AND Applications for inland and coastal WATER
Acronym: PANDA-WATER:
Duration: 08-09-2022 – 07-09-2024
Project budget: € 199,993.64 excluding co-financing
ISMAR budget: € 109,991.12 excluding co-financing
Web site: https://twitter.com/panda__water
Summary:
The PANDA-WATER project, funded by ASI, aims to demonstrate the capabilities of PRISMA hyperspectral imagery to measuring Inland and Coastal Waters and to evaluate its suitability and gaps to address inland and coastal ecosystem science and management challenges. The overall objective of PANDA-WATER is to provide a set of innovative and validated products, derived from imaging spectrometry, that enables the retrieval of additional variables of interest for inland and coastal ecosystems. The novelty of the PANDA-WATER products will stem from the application of the state-of-the-art-algorithms adapted to the Inland and Coastal Waters to the PRISMA increased spatial, spectral and radiometric resolution, thus resulting in augmented observational capabilities and lower associated uncertainties compared to the current Copernicus missions. These products will range from more accurate estimates of optically active water constituents, to more sophisticated products such as particle size distributions or distinguishing sources of suspended and coloured dissolved matter, water depth, natural or artificial materials floating over the surface, attenuation coefficient and euphotic depth, the presence of cyanobacteria and harmful algal bloom. The product development carried out within PANDA-WATER from PRISMA data will also be suitable for the upcoming hyperspectral missions (i.e. DLR EnMap, Copernicus CHIME, NASA’s PACE and SBG), thus contributing to the global advance in spaceborne imaging spectrometry.
Contact person in ISMAR: federica.braga@ve.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- CNR-ISMAR,
- CNR-IREA,
- e-GEOS S.p.A.
