Satellite monitoring - Part 1

Water, one of nature's most vital resources for life, is a rare resource. With the unstoppable march towards industrial development and urbanisation, water sources can quickly become polluted if left neglected or un-monitored.

Fortunately, advanced technologies in remote sensing served as data on the cloud, can help companies and governments the world over to monitor changes in the quality of water in any location. Remote and inaccessible places can be easily assessed for chlorophyll concentration, particle sedimentation, benthic classification and bathymetric profile etc., in order to contribute to activities such as pollution prevention and control, bio-diversity preservation, and sea-bed studies and exploration planning among many others. Multi-nationals and governments no longer need to face high costs and suffer delays in order to get access to water quality and bathymetric information.     

Thanks to validated and proven satellite image processing methods, derived particle concentration (turbidity), types and bathymetric data is now served through portals such as eoapp.eomap.com and made available wordwide. Frequent and regular over passes by an increasing number of constellation of earth observation satellites allow for data to be collected and made available very quickly and even on demand when it is needed. 

That's the good news. But it's not enough. It's all up to you, to make good use of what's available. To ensure we don't further pollute this already suffering earth.