WATER QUALITY REMOTE SENSING IN SUPPORT OF THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

摘要

The Sustainable Development Goals are a new UN policy framework that ensures the environmental sustainability of socio-economic development. This framework calls for global environmental information and new technologies that can efficiently facilitate such information. Remote sensing has a large potential to meet this information demand given its quickly improving usability in operational services. We discuss several previously identified adoption barriers for remotely sensed water quality parameters against the background of this growing potential, and describe requirements for a pilot service in the SDG context, which will be operated in collaboration with the UN GEMS/Water Data Centre and several national authorities throughout 2016, using Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data.