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Savanna water and carbon fluxes modelling integrating Earth Observation data

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EC-Contrib. €

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Project "SWATCH" data sheet

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Coordinator	INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE INVESTIGACIONY FORMACION AGRARIA PESQUERA ALIMENTARIA Y DE LA PRODUCCION ECOLOGICA Organization address address: AVENIDA GRECIA S/N EDF ATVO LOS BERMEJALES city: SEVILLA postcode: 41012 website: www.ifapa.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Spain [ES]
Total cost	239˙191 €
EC max contribution	239˙191 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-GF
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-02-01 to 2021-01-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE INVESTIGACIONY FORMACION AGRARIA PESQUERA ALIMENTARIA Y DE LA PRODUCCION ECOLOGICA INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE INVESTIGACIONY FORMACION AGRARIA PESQUERA ALIMENTARIA Y DE LA PRODUCCION ECOLOGICA Organization address address: AVENIDA GRECIA S/N EDF ATVO LOS BERMEJALES city: SEVILLA postcode: 41012 website: www.ifapa.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (SEVILLA)	coordinator	239˙191.00
2	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Organization address address: FRANKLIN STREET 1111, 12 FLOOR city: OAKLAND CA postcode: 94607 website: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/ contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	US (OAKLAND CA)	partner	0.00

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Project objective

The aim of SWATCH is to develop a unique information system for quantifying savanna water use and biomass production on a regional scale, with the ultimate objective of supporting decision-making processes. This effort directly addresses the European H2020 priorities of sustainable rural development and food security. Savannas are among the most complex, variable and extensive agrosilvopastoral systems on Earth (~20%). One fifth of the world's population depend upon them, although they are extremely vulnerable to changes in land use and climate. These changes affect not only ecosystem functioning, but also the land-atmosphere linkages and regional carbon cycle, in ways still unknown. Since savannas are greatly influenced by human activities, private/institutional practices play a key role in their conservation. The integration of Earth Observation data into process-based models will enable us to map the evolution of the ecosystem health, improving their management, productivity and resilience. However, to map savanna fluxes, besides the mechanistic understanding of how the climate (dry periods) and the canopy structure (patched multiple canopy layers) interact with land-atmospheric processes, robust techniques to upscale the ecosystem parameters and fluxes over space and time are needed. This project intends to bridge this gap and contribute to: 1) a better mechanistic understanding of savanna water/energy/carbon fluxes, using long-term eddy covariance and ground measurements 2) more accurately modelling these fluxes on a regional scale with different-scale EO data 3) the development of an operational information system to be integrated into decision-making processes, evaluating a pilot experience located over dehesa (Spanish productive savanna).The outgoing phase with Prof. Baldocchi's group (UC Berkeley, USA) intends to cover first and second objectives, while the third one will be address on the return phase, with Dr. Gonzalez-Dugo's group (IFAPA, Spain).

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Ana Andreu, Timothy Dube, Hector Nieto, Azwitamisi E. Mudau, MarÃa P. GonzÃ¡lez-Dugo, Radoslaw Guzinski, Stephan HÃ¼lsmann Remote sensing of water use and water stress in the African savanna ecosystem at local scale â€“ Development and validation of a monitoring tool published pages: 154-164, ISSN: 1474-7065, DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2019.02.004	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 112	2020-04-01
2018	Ana Andreu, William Kustas, Maria Polo, Arnaud Carrara, Maria GonzÃ¡lez-Dugo Modeling Surface Energy Fluxes over a Dehesa (Oak Savanna) Ecosystem Using a Thermal Based Two Source Energy Balance Model (TSEB) IIâ€”Integration of Remote Sensing Medium and Low Spatial Resolution Satellite Images published pages: 558, ISSN: 2072-4292, DOI: 10.3390/rs10040558	Remote Sensing 10/4	2019-09-02
2018	Ana Andreu, William Kustas, Maria Polo, Arnaud Carrara, Maria GonzÃ¡lez-Dugo Modeling Surface Energy Fluxes over a Dehesa (Oak Savanna) Ecosystem Using a Thermal Based Two-Source Energy Balance Model (TSEB) I published pages: 567, ISSN: 2072-4292, DOI: 10.3390/rs10040567	Remote Sensing 10/4	2019-09-02

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