Space Apps Challenge 2017

Aqueduct 4.0 | Where's the Water?

Lisbon

Awards & Nominations

Aqueduct 4.0 has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

The Challenge | Where's the Water?

Use satellite and other data to allow farmers, landowners, and land managers in your locale to identify and visualize water resources in their surroundings.

Aqueduct 4.0

Develop a water management solution that provides insightful and relevant information to the water ecosystem stakeholders. Provide a better visibility to decision makers, identify key predictors, optimize decisions and prevent harmful outcomes.

Aqueduct 4.0

AQUEDUCT 4.0

Introduction

Aqueduct 4.0 goal is to develop a solution that provides insightful and relevant information to the water ecosystem stakeholders, including not only farmers and landowners, but also public safety organizations and industrial partners.By the end of the day, we want to provide a better visibility to decision makers, identify key predictors, optimize decisions and prevent harmful outcomes.

Aqueduct 4.0

Our goal can achieved by following four main points:

  • Collect data from different sources
  • Send the data to an infrastructure
  • Implement analytical analysis
  • Create services and businesses to different stakeholders
Collect Data

The data sources are vast (satellite images and readings, reports, etc...), and include the following topics:

  1. Streams / Lakes / Reservoirs
  2. Groundwater / Aquifers / Wells
  3. Quality of water
  4. Water use
Transport the Data

We need to provide the adapted network technologies needed to take advantage of the all data sources send data to an infrastructure, possibly Cloud-based.

Analytics

In order to provide enriching information, it is essential to implement not only basic analysis, but also some complex and predictive analytics. Also, there are government standards and regulations that must be complied, and we can provide those for basic operational analysis.

Create services and businesses

After data analysis, there are various potential services that can be provided, such as:

  1. Selection of irrigation technology/method
  2. Expansion strategy
  3. Storage management / optimization
  4. Water allocation
  5. Water scarcity prevention
  6. Crop and crop area selection
Major Sectors

The major sectors identified are:

  • Agriculture
  • Residential
  • Industrial
  • Hydroelectric power production
  • Ecological Organizations
  • Aquaculture production
  • Public safety organizations (stormwater and flooding)
Resources
  • Government databases
  • Computational resources: R, Shiny, Data Retrieval (USGS-R API)
  • Members of the team (3 pax): Miguel Quaresma, Gonçalo Matos, António Moreira
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