Funded by: European CoMmission
Program: Specific Targeted Research, Project (STREP)
Period: 01/09/2006 – 31/08/2009
Partners: Systems Technology Advance Spa, SYSTEA (Coordinator); Politechnika Warszawska, PW (Warsaw University of Technology), WUT ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB; Research Institute of Chemistry of St. Petersburg University, SPU; Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien, BOKU; Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, NERSC; YSI Hydrodata, YSI; The University Court of the University of Aberdeen, UNIABDN ; Institute of Electron Technology, IET
Summary:
WARMER is a research project funded by European Commission to develop a real-time water quality monitoring system for Risk Assessment.
WARMER is an interdisciplinary project that integrates R&D activities in a number of different disciplines, such as chemistry, electronics, information technology, networking and micromechanics. The final result will be a development of a multi-parameter water quality monitoring system that could be effectively used for water risk management and subsequently can be employed for semi-industrial production for the fast developing instrument market.
It will be based on a set of modular multiparametric in-situ probes, to be integrated in a field deployable monitoring platform.
Field measurement data will be linked to remote sensing Earth observations using a Web based management system.
The new water monitoring system will be used as a decision tool, to support the management of hazardous pollution events in coastal areas, large rivers and lakes.