{"projectrec":{"ProID":1535,"StandardTitle":"Optical remote sensing support for a coastal zone Environmental Impact Study","OrigTitle":"Optische teledetectie voor een milieueffectenstudie in het kustgebied","Acronym":null,"AbstractEnglish":"<li>Description :\r\n\r\nRegarding activities in Thailand and Southeast Asia, ECOLAS is currently bidding for different EIA's related to port and offshore investment projects. One of the bids concerns the \"Thai Offshore Base\" (TOB) project, in the framework of which a port facility is to be constructed near the existing port of Songkhla on the southeast coast of Thailand. This EIA is wide-ranging in scope, covering many potential pollution aspects. However, key elements relate to possible disruption and/or damage to the marine environment from suspended sediments dumped after dredging operations, and to possible changes in coastal and marine water movement. The necessary baseline information on the existing suspended sediment climate and on existing port discharges of waste water and subsequent transport in the coastal zone is lacking, suggesting an opening for the use of optical remote sensing.\r\n\r\nThe specific objective of this project is to obtain, from optical remote sensing data, baseline environmental information on the suspended sediment climate (including location of high turbidity regions and rainfall-induced seasonal variability) and on the main characteristics of phytoplankton distribution and dynamics in the coastal zone affected by the port facility to be constructed at Songkhla. This information will be used in Ecolas' Environmental Impact Assessment.\r\n\r\nThe following tasks will be carried out to achieve the stated objectives :\r\n\r\n- A summary will be made of the existing data (if any) relating to suspended particulate matter and chlorophyll distributions in the coastal zone of the port of Songkhla.\r\n- A summary will be made of the potential sources of optical remote sensing data (e.g. Landsat, SPOT, SeaWiFS, AVHRR, etc.) with an appraisal of each sensor for the present application in terms of spatial, temporal and spectral coverage and resolution, data availability, etc.\r\n- The selected imagery will be processed to give suspended matter and chlorophyll distributions.\r\n- A scientific analysis will be made of the processed imagery, noting both remote sensing aspects that may affect the data quality as well as interpreting the imagery in terms of physical/biological processes.\r\n- The remote sensing imagery and accompanying scientific analysis will be incorporated into Ecolas' Environmental Impact Assessment.\r\n\r\nEcolas will supply the scientific partner with all available literature concerning relevant meteorological, hydrodynamical, sedimentological and biological data, including translations of Thai scientific publications and Environmental Impact Studies of the region. Ecolas has already supplied to MUMM bathymetric maps and tide tables for the region.\r\n\r\n- Information on baseline information regarding suspended sediments, the existing port discharges of waste water and subsequent transport in the coastal zone. \r\n- Insight in the key issues and problems which may arise during the dredging works and the port operation in the field of suspended sediment transport.\r\n- Possible indications on erosion/deposition phenomena when compared to less recent remote sensing data.\r\n\r\nWhile the present proposal is focussed on the TOB EIA, the methodology, if successful, can be easily applied to many such coastal zone EIAs (a core business of the use partner), even if existing knowledge and/or local support is very limited.","AbstractOtherLang":"<li>Beschrijving :\r\n\r\nIn het kader van activiteiten in Thailand en Zuidoost Azië, dient ECOLAS momenteel offertes in voor verschillende EIA's in verband met haven en offshore investeringsprojecten. Eén van de offertes betreft het \"Thai Offshore Base\" (TOB)-project, dat de aanleg van haveninfrastructuur omvat bij de bestaande haven van Songkhla aan de zuidoostelijke kust van Thailand. Dit groots opgezette EIA bestrijkt vele mogelijke vervuilingsaspecten. De belangrijkste elementen hebben echter te maken met verstoring en/of beschadiging van het mariene milieu door sedimenten in suspensie gedumpt na baggeroperaties, en mogelijke veranderingen in kust- en mariene waterbewegingen. De noodzakelijke basisinformatie over het bestaande sedimentklimaat en over bestaande lozingen van afvalwater in havens en het daaropvolgende transport naar het kustgebied ontbreekt, en hier bestaan er juist mogelijkheden voor het gebruik van optische teledetectie.\r\n\r\nDe specifieke doelstelling van dit project is basisinformatie over milieurisico's uit optische teledetectiegegevenste verkrijgen over de toestand van de sedimenten (met inbegrip van de plaats van gebieden met hoge turbiditeit en seizoensmatige variabiliteit door neerslag) en over de voornaamste eigenschappen van verdeling en dynamiek van fytoplankton in het kustgebied dat beïnvloed wordt door de haveninfrastructuur die bij Songkhla gebouwd zal worden. Deze informatie zal gebruikt worden in het Ecolas' milieueffectenrapport.\r\n\r\nDe volgende opdrachten zullen uitgevoerd worden om de doelstellingen te bereiken:\r\n\r\n- Er zal een samenvatting gemaakt worden van de (eventuele) bestaande gegevens in verband met vaste opgeloste materie en chlorofylverdeling in het kustgebied van de haven van Songkhla.\r\n- Er zal een samenvatting gemaakt worden van de potentiële bronnen van optische teledetectiegegevens (bv. Landsat, SPOT, SeaWiFS, AVHRR, enz.) met een evaluatie van elke sensor voor deze toepassing in termen van ruimtelijke, temporele en spectrale dekking en resolutie, beschikbaarheid van gegevens, enz.\r\n- De geselecteerde beelden zullen verwerkt worden om materie in suspensie en chlorofylverdeling op te leveren.\r\n- Er zal een wetenschappelijke analyse gemaakt worden van de verwerkte beelden, waarbij aspecten van teledetectie genoteerd worden die een invloed kunnen hebben op de gegevenskwaliteit en de beelden in termen van fysische/biologische processen geïnterpreteerd worden.\r\n- De teledetectiebeelden en begeleidende wetenschappelijke analyse zal geïncorporeerd worden in Ecolas' milieueffectenstudie.\r\n\r\nEcolas zal de wetenschappelijke partner alle beschikbare literatuur leveren over relevante meteorologische, hydrodynamische, sedimentologische en biologische gegevens, met inbegrip van vertalingen van Thaise wetenschappelijke publicaties en milieueffectenrapporten van de streek. Ecolas heeft de BMM reeds bathymetrische kaarten en getijdentabellen geleverd voor de streek.\r\n\r\nDe resultaten verkregen uit de teledetectiegegevens zijn:\r\n\r\n- Basisinformatie over sedimenten in suspensie, de bestaande lozingen van afvalwater in de haven en het daaropvolgende transport naar het kustgebied. \r\n- Inzicht in de moeilijkheden en problemen die kunnen rijzen tijdens de baggeroperaties en havenwerking in het gebied waar sedimenten in suspensie getransporteerd worden.\r\n- Mogelijke aanwijzingen over erosie/afzettingsverschijnselen vergeleken met vroegere teledetectiegegevens.\r\n\r\nHoewel het huidige voorstel gericht is op de TOB EIA, kan de methodologie, als deze slaagt, makkelijk toegepast worden op dergelijke EIA's voor kustgebieden (een kernactiviteit gebruikende partner), zelfs als bestaande kennis en/of lokale steun beperkt is.","DateLastModified":{"date":"2025-07-02 08:33:20.809226","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+02:00"},"ParentProID":1083,"BeginYear":1999,"EndYear":1999,"BMonth":7,"EMonth":12,"BeginMonth":"July","EndMonth":"December","OrigTitleLangCode":"nl","OrigTitleLangID":41,"OrigTitleLangNL":"Nederlands","OrigTitleLang":"Dutch","OtherAbstractLangCode":"nl","OtherAbstractLangID":41,"OtherAbstractLang":"Dutch","OtherAbstractLangNL":"Nederlands","Progress":"Completed","ProgressNL":"Afgelopen","PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":1,"ND":"2004-09-06","UD":"2007-04-03","DMPFlag":0,"Budget":null,"BudgetCurrency":"EUR"},"parent":{"ProID":1083,"Acronym":"SPSD-I","StandardTitle":"Research action SPSD-I: Sustainable management of the North Sea"},"persons":null,"projects":null,"events":null,"datasets":null,"institutes":[{"instituterec":{"Acronym":"BMM","ProPartID":6277,"PublicFlag":1,"OrigNameLangCode":"en","OrigNameLangID":15,"FullOrigName":"Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; 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