DTE Hydrology Next
Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Next
DTE Hydrology Next
Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Next
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.
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 Aalborg University, more specific the Geodesy Research Group at Department of Planning, in this DTE Hydrology Next project is around addressing:
- 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.
- A scientific development for formulating statistical inversion and Bayesian Fusion approaches for estimating groundwater storage from various input data with different uncertainty levels.
- Addressing differences between the temporal resolution of satellite data with the target temporal resolution of this study (hourly and daily time scales) and,
- Validations against the in-situ groundwater network of Europe.
Project Facts
PROJECT NAME
Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Next (DTE Hydrology Next)
EFFECTIVE START/END DATE
October 2024 - September 2026
PROJECT PARTNERS
- Aalborg University, Department of Planning
- CNR-IRPI (Italy)
- TUWIEN (Austria)
- UGent (Belgium)
- CIMA (Italy)
- Obsebre (Spain)
- UNIPG (Italy)
- Deltares (The Netherlands)
- RHEA (Italy)
- MEEO (Italy)
- UFZ (Germany)
- eGEOS (Italy)
AAU Space Group