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ESA’s TIGER II to support 20 water projects in Africa

22 March 2010

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Relative turbidity over the Lake Manzalah area in Egypt derived from Envisat MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) data acquired on different dates. The data was acquired and analysed under the TIGER innovator project 'Satellite Monitoring of Lake Water Quality in Egypt'.

Credits: TIGER innovator Lake Quality Egypt

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TIGER II preliminary study areas

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Flooding patterns of the Okavango Delta from Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) time-series. Areas identified as open water surfaces appear as blue, and water surfaces covered by vegetation appear as green. The spatial resolution of 150 m captures precisely small-scale flooding patterns, such as channels and lagoons. The time series comprises 13 images for the year 2005. The spatial extent of the flooded area varies between 1200 and 9000 sq km. This time series, created under the TIGER project 'Remote Sensing as a data source for surface and groundwater modelling in Botswana', will be used for calibrating a hydrological model.

Credits: TIGER I AO Project 2977

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A TIGER workshop was held in December 2009 at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente in The Netherlandsat, in order to identify better the needs of the selected projects and to set up a dedicated capacity building plan for each project.

Credits: Zoltán Vekerdy, ITC