A Cloud-Based System for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Monitoring over Austria

01.09.2018 - 31.05.2020

Research funding project

The objective of the BMon (short for “Bodenfeuchte-Monitor”) project is to develop a cloud-based system for real-time monitoring of soil moisture conditions over Austria at high-resolution (100 m). An innovative method of integrating data from multiple satellites and different numerical models will be used to provide reliable soil moisture estimates. The system will be setup in a modular fashion on a cloud platform, which shall guarantee a seamless integration of system components to tailor the data workflow to a diverse set of applications. In view of the three main application domains considered in this project (meteorology, hydrology and agronomy) three different models will be used. Their outputs will be inter-compared with in situ data and other key variables which are known to be closely related to soil moisture (such as precipitation, runoff, vegetation status).

People

Institute

Grant funds

FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Group Austrian Space Agency (ASA) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Call identifier ASAP14

Research focus

Environmental Monitoring and Climate Adaptation: 100%

Keywords

German	English
monitoring	monitoring
Bodenfeuchte	soil moisture
Datenintegration	data integrating

External partner

Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik
Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien, Institut für Meteorologie
International Atomic Energy Agency
EODC Earth Observation Data Centre Water Resources Monitoring GmbH
MS.GIS Informationssysteme Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung und Sport (BMLVS)
BM für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, U und Wasserwirtschaft

Publications

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