The research group TIDOP develops a software tool, named Revela-Duero, with the aim of controlling the water used for irrigation purposes in the Douro Basin Confederation, inside the framework of the National Project “Implementation of a system for detecting irrigated areas and crop types along the Douro Basin by analyzing remote sensing scenes”.
This National Project, encouraged by the Douro Basin Confederation, is carried out by the University of Salamanca, represented by its research group TIDOP from the High Polytechnic School of Ávila, in collaboration with the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
The tool, named as Revela Duero, has been developed as an open source that allows to accurately control the use of the water resources in the widest Spanish basin from the space, using the satellites. Both Landsat 8, from NASA, and Sentinel 2, from ESA, are used, but mainly S2 regarding to its higher spatial and temporal resolution, of 10 m over the 30 m from Landsat and every 5 days since the Sentinel-2B launch on March 7th.
Thereby, this software tool will allow both saving water and fulfilling the monitoring tasks of the fluvial guards, detecting the unauthorized irrigated areas from the data provided by the satellites images, cartographic information compiled by the SIGPAC and several information supplied by the basin organism, fluvial guards and declarations given by the irrigation users. Moreover, it will estimate the water volume consumed and crop type by using the progression of the NDVI curve, which is the normalized difference vegetation index.
Thereby, this software tool will allow both saving water and fulfilling the monitoring tasks of the fluvial guards, detecting the unauthorized irrigated areas from the data provided by the satellites images, cartographic information compiled by the SIGPAC and several information supplied by the basin organism, fluvial guards and declarations given by the irrigation users. Moreover,it will estimate the water volume consumed and crop type by using the progression of the NDVI curve, which is the normalized difference vegetation index.
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