DTE Hydrology Next

Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Next

by E. Forootan

Within the DTE Hydrology Next research project, a strong international consortium, including twelve institutes in Europe, working together to build a hydrological twin for Europe as well as some other pilot demonstrations, e.g., in Africa. The consortium members are:

CNR-IRPI (Italy)

Obsebre (Spain)

RHEA (Italy)

TUWIEN (Australia)

eGEOS (Italy)

MEEO (Italy)

UGent (Belgium)

UNIPG (Italy)

UFZ (Germany)

CIMA (Italy)

Deltares (Netherlands)

AAU Geodesy (Denmark)

This project is funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to prototype a full advanced end-to-end demonstrator of DTE over Europe and targeted regions in Africa and central America at high resolution in space and time (targeting 1 km and 1 hour).

The contribution of the Geodesy Group is this DTE Hydrology Next project is around addressing

  1. Developing Machine Learning-based algorithms for downscaling satellite gravity and satellite soil moisture data based on the available 1 km resolution water storage and water flux products of this project.
  2. A scientific development for formulating statistical inversion and Bayesian Fusion approaches for estimating groundwater storage from various input data with different uncertainty levels.
  3. Addressing differences between the temporal resolution of satellite data with the target temporal resolution of this study (hourly and daily time scales).
  4. Addressing validations against the in-situ groundwater network of Europe.

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