The inestimable value of a the ecosystem for human safety, health and quality of living, its conservation and sustainable integration is the guiding principle of the bi-national research project ECOAQUA of the Mexican universities UNAM (Mexico City), UABC (Ensenada) and the TU Braunschweig.
The scarcity and salinisation problems caused by overexploitation of the aquifers, land settlement, associated infrastructure damage and the decline in soil quality present local supply, economic and scientific enterprises with far-reaching challenges.
The overall goal of the ECOAQUA project is to determine the spatio-temporal performance and interactions of acting factors in the eco- and socio-economical system in an arid coastal its , to identify influencing and risk factors and develop a model to evaluate and modify the previous and future performance of the system.
The contribution of the TU Braunschweig working group to the analysis of the dynamics and complexity of a bio-economical system with special focus on the aquifer system consists in applying and extending remote sensing techniques (satellite-based InSAR), cause-specific modeling of surface deformation and data-based descriptive and qualitative hydrological modeling using Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms. The latter is facilitated by the high density of relevant field data and remote sensing data. This enables the generation of reliable temporal and spatial information about the state and the transformation processes of the local aquifers, taking into account different data levels.
| Duration: | November 2016 - October 2020 |
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| Project sponsor: | DLR Projektträger Bonn |
| Support code: | 01DN16035 |
| Contact person: | Christine Schottmüller |
| Staff: | Björn Riedel |
| Anika Riedel | |
| Field of research and project partner: | Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, México |
| Instituto de Ingeniería de UNAM, México | |
| Leichtweiß- Institut für Wasserbau, TU Braunschweig |
