Improving water quality is one of the major social challenges worldwide and a core element of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The basis for the necessary strategies and measures is a coherent determination and analysis of water quality from regional to global scales, the key drivers of change and the impacts on human uses and aquatic ecosystems.

The central project goal of GlobeWQ was the development, testing and pilot application of a scale-spanning analysis and evaluation methodology for water quality. The project results include novel data syntheses of data- and remote sensing-based information, scalable models and digital tools for identifying existing and emerging water security threats with a focus on water quality.

In this context, terrestris participated in the GlobeWQ research project and was responsible for developing the Geoportal from October 2019 to December 2022.
A special feature of the GlobeWQ project was the joint consideration of in-situ, remote sensing and modeled data in order to be able to assess water quality in the various investigation areas (Lake Victoria, Lake Sevan and the Elbe) on the broadest possible data basis.

Although the project duration was massively influenced by the Covid19 pandemic, working on the project with colleagues from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, the Ruhr-University Bochum, the company EOMap and the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change was great fun.