Aquapath - Water service for GSE-Land

Aquapath project is an initiative integrated in the GMES program (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). This project is an exytension to Portugal of the project GSE-Land (GMES Service Element – Land Information Service), financed by ESA (European Space Agency).

Aquapath is coordenated by Instituto Superior Técnico (Maretec) and its partners are Instituto Geográfico Português and also two private companies: YDreams e Unitelco. The expected duration of the project is 12 months beginning on January 2008.

Aquapath will provide services and cartographic products related with water quality, which will allow to satisfy monitoring and watershed management needs. The geographic area that will be addressed will be Tagus watershed in Portugal.