Copernicus Assisted Lake Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service (WQeMS)

  • Duration: 2021 - 2023
  • Status: Completed

The objective of this Horizon 2020 project is to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service to the water utilities industry in relation with the quality of the ‘water we drink’ based on satellite observations and other measurements.

Project management
Sampsa Koponen
Project team
Jenni Attila, Kari Kallio, Hanna Alasalmi, Eeva Bruun, Olli Malve
Financiers
Horizon 2020
Partners
Coordinated by CERTH (Greece) See the main project webpage for information about the partners
Subject area
Water, Research, International

In Finland the system will be piloted in the lake Pien-Saimaa, which is a source of drinking water for thy City of Lappeenranta.

More information is available in the main webpages of the WQeMS project (wqems.eu).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action programme under Grant Agreement No 101004157. This project's results will also be available on CORDIS (cordis.europa.eu), European Commission's primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU's framework programmes.
 

Published 19.3.2021 / Updated 18.3.2025