AquaCop

16/10/2025

📍 Another full length journal paper from our Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland-funded project on "An exploitation of remote sensing CMS products for monitoring of​ transitional and coastal waters​".

📚This article presents an innovative and comprehensive review of remote sensing–based approaches for retrieving optically inactive water quality (WQ) indicators — a domain that has received limited attention compared to active WQ indicators. The study’s insights into the strengths and limitations of empirical, semi-empirical, and ML/AI-based models make it a valuable resource for advancing global, reliable, and cost-effective WQ monitoring 🌊. Its findings directly contribute to the achievement of UN SDG-6 💧 by promoting sustainable and data-driven water resource management. We are confident that the findings could be considered another masterpiece in this domain.

👏 This achievement would not have been possible without the expertise and dedication of the project research team. Heartiest congratulations to our research team! Your hard work behind the scenes made this success a reality.

👉 For full details on the findings and insights, check out the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105259

University of Galway
EPA Ireland
Eco HydroInformatics Research Group - EHIRG

01/10/2025

⚡ Much delighted to share some of the moments from our yesterday's discussion session with Marine Institute (MI) for the EPA Ireland funded AquaCop project on "An exploitation of remote sensing CMEMS products for monitoring of transitional and coastal waters". Our PhD researchers Mir Talas Mahammad Diganta, Majed Sajib, and Eva Cullen has presented their works and progress. We are thankful to Dr Caroline Cusack and the MI team for sharing their on-going research works 👩‍🔬 . The AquaCop project team demonstrated their current research activities for improving the water monitoring program by incorporating satellite remote sensing technique 🌊 . The team deeply acknowledge the expertise of Dr Indiana Agnieszka Olbert and Dr Md Galal Uddin, PhD from the EcoHydroInformatics Research Group(EHIRG) of University of Galway, Ireland in the continued journey of AquaCop project 👏 .

University of Galway
Marine Institute - Foras na Mara
EPA Ireland
Eco HydroInformatics Research Group - EHIRG

20/09/2024

I am delighted to share that two advanced water quality models have been recently developed and highlighted in the latest Sustainability Report (see pages 48-50) of the University of Galway:

(1) Irish Water Quality Index (IEWQI) Model: This model focuses on TrC water assessment and the identification of pressure loads. More information is available at https://lnkd.in/e-t5HbTh.
(2) Assessment of Tropic Status Index (ATSI) Model: This model assesses aquatic ecosystems using cutting-edge ML/AI technologies. Learn more here https://lnkd.in/ekpgefcF.
Both models were developed as part of my PhD project, which aligns with several (SDGs), particularly (Clean Water and Sanitation). For more details on the project, please visit https://lnkd.in/eUtPSCYR.

Details can be found at https://www.universityofgalway.ie/sustainability/sustainabilityreports/
If you are interested to all of relevant research with these models development histories, please visit at https://lnkd.in/eqachP5y

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the hashtag for funding this extraordinary project, and to my esteemed supervisors, Indiana Agnieszka Olbert , Stephen Nash, and Dr Azizur Rahman, for their invaluable guidance and support through the project. Special thanks to Emeritus Professor Roger Falconer FREng, Professor Reza Ahmadian, Professor Xinmin Zhan, Professor guangxue wu, and Professor Mark Healy PhD, DEng for providing invaluable guidelines.

I am also thankful to the University of Galway and the Eco HydroInformatics Research Group - EHIRG for providing the necessary computational lab facilities.

01/07/2024

Today a great training session took place for the EPA Ireland funded AquaCop project with Marine Institute - Foras na Mara. Dr Catherine Jordan of Marine Institute of Ireland shared her experience from Copernicus's FRM4SOC-2024 for processing in-situ hyperspectral radiometric data. This would ultimately assist the project team for validating satellite data over the transitional and coastal waters of Ireland. We are thankful to Dr Catherine Jordan for his valuable time and suggestions. Additionally, we express our sincere gratitude to Dr Caroline Cusack for her continued support. The project team deeply acknowledge the expertise of Dr Indiana Agnieszka Olbert and Dr Md Galal Uddin from the Eco HydroInformatics Research Group - EHIRG of University of Galway, Ireland in the continued journey of AquaCop project.

17/04/2024

It is an immense please to share and discuss our on-going research work from our EPA Ireland funded "AquaCop" project with Dr. Catherine Jordan Marine Institute - Foras na Mara, Ireland. After a successful discussion, we agreed to work together on Irish waters through "AquaCop" project. Through this, we are hoping to provide cutting-edge water state monitoring framework incorporating earth observation and ML/AI technologies.
To know more about AquaCop, please follow us here: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/ehirg/currentresearch/
Are you interested in our recently developed tools for monitoring water state? Please have a all at our publications:
IEWQI (for rating and monitoring water quality): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161614
ATSI (for rating ecological state and ecosystem services): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117755
To get involved with our research works, projects and IEWQI-ASTI related training, please contact us here: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/ehirg/contactus/

Eco HydroInformatics Research Group - EHIRG
Charles Sturt University
University of Galway
University of Tartu
Wageningen University & Research
EPA Ireland
Marine Institute - Foras na Mara
AquaCop

23/02/2024

Dear Colleagues, Due to the huge volume of requests from the authors including Journal demands, the SI submission deadline extended for 3 months. It will be closed 31 May 2024. Details will be updated very soon on the Journal portal. For details please checkout at https://lnkd.in/ecMmFT85

Thanks to all for cooperating through the SI journey and their contributions!

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