Satellite-based Information System on Coastal Areas and Lakes
Operational Monitoring of Water Quality Using Earth Observation

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Service Overview
The SISCAL service integrates Earth observation data, state-of the-art evaluation algorithms and ancillary digital databases in order to derive water-quality related information products on the open ocean, coastal areas and larger lakes, customised to specific end user needs, on an operational basis in near-real-time. In its current operational state, SISCAL provides maps on environmentally relevant parameters such as the sea surface temperature (SST), chlorophyll-a concentration or Secchi depth (see Products and Formats for a list of all available products) obtained from ocean observing instruments such as MODIS and AVHRR (see Data Availability for a list of available instruments and covered areas). The SISCAL technology is not limited to data products on aquatic ecosystems. In fact, SISCAL is a tool for comfortably distributing geospatial data of various origin, such as digital elevation models (GTOPO30 or SRTM) or land cover / land use information (GLCC).

Main Advantages
No need for in-house expertise on Earth Observation Near-real-time data products directly available through the internet State-of-the-art algorithms for assessing aquatic parameters Integration of user-specific local or regional algorithms User-defined regions of interest Georeferencing compatible with existing GIS layers Sophisticated end-user GIS tool based on ESRI ArcGIS

In case you need further information or have comments,
please contact us under info@siscal.net.