Abstract:
Monitoring of all relevant aspects of water bodies is highly important for
their sustainable use. To achieve this all research findings should be easy
accessible and presenting those in a user friendly manner will be highly
advantageous. Therefore, development of a database on the coastal water
bodies of Sri Lanka on KISSEL server system was initiated, for the
benefit of all interest groups including the general public. Presently it
contains water quality data of lagoons and estuaries for over two decades.
This was extended from a local scale to a regional scale. In this extension,
algorithm improvement or tuning based on in-situ data sets was carried
out for optimization. The aim was to expand the databases on water
bodies using satellite analysis within selected Asian countries. It was
initiated through KISSEL server system to benefit pollution monitoring
and sustainable use of water bodies. Water bodies of Japan, Sri Lanka,
Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines were selected considering
their economic and ecological importance. In-situ research parallel to
satellite overpass were conducted on the following water bodies. Local
Universities and/or Research Institutes collaborated with the collection of
field data and will involve in future continuous monitoring programs and
KISSEL related activities.
