Presenting WaterSENSE during the MODSIM2023 Congress

Published on 5 August 2023 by Marieke van Slooten

During the MODSIM2023, the 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, held from 9 to 14 July 2023 in Darwin Australia, Rutger Vervoort presented an update on water use monitoring and assessment services being undertaken in the WaterSENSE Horizon 2020 project. In the last year, great progress has been made withing the project. Here are some highlights:

Updated evapotranspiration and irrigated water use estimations from EO data (ETLook and HSP algorithms from eLEAF), including weekly updates on irrigated land use detection.
Farm water balance information per lot across an entire basin with the new HydroAquaFarm model from HIDROMOD.
New surface water growing algorithm by ARC Training Centre in Data Analytics for Resources & Environments (DARE), to extend water detected by EO methods under riparian and wetland vegetation.
Vegetation and biomass condition score rasters from eLEAF to help monitor the effects of environmental flow releases on riparian and wetland vegetation response
Operational implementation in HydroNET.
Working with NSW Department of Planning and Environment, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Goulburn Broken CMA to demonstrate and test the services.

The conference was a great opportunity to highlight our work with our WaterSENSE partners.