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Europa - The European Union On-Line Energy, environment and sustainable development Fifth framework programme of the European Community TIDE
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WP1 - Development of models  of tidal systems evolution

           

Formulation of channel evolution model

           

Formulation of vegetation evolution model

           

Model of coupled vegetation/landform dynamics

           

Testing of vegetation/landform model

           

WP2 - Sediment transport  models at the channel scale

           

Flow and sediment equations coupling

           

Approximate analytical solutions

           

Numerical solutions

           

Calibration and testing

           

WP3 - Morphodynamic modelling of sediment transport

           

SAR and Landsat data acquisition

           

Sediment retrieval schemes

           

Waterline method application

           

Assimilation of sediment estimates into hydrodynamic model

           

Testing of morphodynamic model

           

WP4 - Observation of tidal systems

           

Hyperspectral and Lidar remote sensing campaigns

           

Retrieval of altimetry/bathymetry

           

Ground radiometric, vegetation, water salinity/temp./sediment obs.

           

In situ bathymetric and water level observations

           

Physical  and microbiological  characters of surface sediment

           

WP5 - Retrieval of tidal  network morphology

           

Channel retrieval scheme from bathymetry

           

Channel retrieval scheme from hyperspectral data

           

WP6 - Vegetation and microphytobentos classification from remote sensing  data

           

Production of vegetation and micro-algal maps

           

Hyperspectral feature selection schemes

           

Classification schemes on hyperspectral data

           

Vegetation characterisation through Lidar

           

WP7 - Evaluation of the hydrological cycle components in lagoon environments

           

Gathering of existing data

           

Runoff, radiation, evaporation modules

           

Regional hydrological model

           

Testing of hydrological model, delivery open source code

           

WP8 - Socio-economic value and implications of statutory control

           

Interviews

           

Processing of interview results

           

WWW Coastal Resource Package

           

Analysis of control group response against naive groups

           

WP9 - Construction of a data base on tidal environments

           

Assimilation of field data in database

           

Remotely searchable database

           

Public presentations of WWW database