Qirun Ecological launches a "Remote Sensing + AI" water environment monitoring platform

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Publication Time: 2021-08-05

Summary: For most ordinary people, "spatial data" is a concept detached from daily life. Qirun Ecological Drainage Data Consulting Center aims to make "data from 600,000 meters high readily accessible", using spatial data to break down information asymmetry and create a "water environment data encyclopedia".

  For the vast majority of ordinary people, "spatial data" is a concept detached from daily life. What Qirun Ecological Drainage Data Consulting Center aims to do is to make "data from 600,000 meters high readily available," using spatial data to break down information asymmetry and create a "water environment data encyclopedia."

  In short, Qirun Ecological integrates raw data collected by remote sensing satellites with data from drones and sensors, using AI deep learning algorithms for data mining and analysis to form high-quality data products. It provides services to users through a PaaS (Platform as a Service) model, helping relevant water environment regulatory departments achieve data-driven business upgrades.

 

   Why launch a water environment monitoring platform?

  This needs to start with the current pain points in water environment monitoring.

  Water pollution is one of the most prominent environmental problems today. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80% of diseases worldwide are caused by drinking contaminated water. In the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, male triathlon athletes experienced collective vomiting after reaching the finish line. Reports indicate that the high levels of E. coli in Tokyo Bay, caused by sewage overflow due to rain, exceeded standards.

  With the deepening of the reform of the ecological environment administrative system, China has achieved rapid development in the field of water environment monitoring. However, affected by many factors, the actual monitoring work still faces problems such as low regulatory efficiency, long cycles, monitoring blind spots, and lack of objectivity and uniformity. Traditional routine water quality monitoring, such as manual sampling or automatic water quality monitoring stations, often only cover key sections in terms of spatial coverage, and the deployment methods are cumbersome and have high implementation thresholds. To expand monitoring methods and achieve more three-dimensional monitoring, based on existing traditional monitoring methods and the current market demand and development direction for water environment monitoring products, Qirun Ecological has built a new water environment monitoring platform from the aspects of underlying technology, data mining, and business models.

 

   How to define water environment remote sensing monitoring?

  Under the needs of social and economic development and public health, the significance of water environment monitoring has risen to a higher level. Faced with new challenges, only by lowering the threshold of use, meeting core business needs, and improving regulatory governance efficiency

  is the direction of current water environment monitoring work, and this is also the purpose of Qirun Ecological's launch of the water environment monitoring platform. The Qirun Ecological water environment monitoring platform can use artificial intelligence + satellite remote sensing technology to monitor water bodies in a macroscopic, large-scale, and seamless manner. Monitoring of multiple water quality parameters can achieve high-frequency updates (ideally updated every 3-5 days), and monitoring data products can be delivered within one day.

   Water Environment Monitoring Platform Demonstration

 

   How to locate the monitoring area?

  Identifying and extracting the monitoring area is the first step in water environment monitoring. The water resource dynamic monitoring of the Qirun Ecological water environment monitoring platform provides identification of rivers, lakes, ponds, and oceans, providing users with an overview of water resources from a macroscopic and large-scale perspective, to the status of each specific river and lake, providing users with the types, distribution, and spatiotemporal dynamic changes of water resources in key river basins, and assisting users in mastering water functional zoning.

  In addition, it can also monitor natural changes such as the normal water level period, dry season, and flood season, as well as man-made changes such as the reduction of water resources due to human activities (such as excessive reclamation), assisting users in water conservancy scheduling, drought conditions, and river and lake encroachment law enforcement monitoring.

 

   Where is the pollution?

  Water environment monitoring requires monitoring and measuring pollutants, concentrations, and change trends in water bodies. The Qirun Ecological water environment monitoring platform can comprehensively evaluate the water environment based on multiple water quality parameters, providing a macroscopic distribution difference of the water environment status. Users can clearly locate "where the pollution is," assisting users in carrying out normalized dynamic monitoring of water resources, pollution supervision, pollution control, and pollution effect verification.

   Various Water Environment Data Products - Switching Demonstration

 

  Data Performance:

  1. Multi-level administrative scale monitoring can serve the application needs of "province-city-county-township" across the country.

  2. Provides a wealth of water quality parameter products to help users identify pollutant indicators.

   Water Environment Data Products

 

   Changes in pollution?

  Water pollution is a systematic and continuous problem, and pollution cannot be eradicated overnight. Therefore, we need normalized and cyclical monitoring to keep abreast of changes in water quality.

  The Qirun Ecological water environment monitoring platform provides high-frequency updates of dynamic monitoring of water environment conditions, helping users understand the evolution of the water environment over time. At the same time, it establishes a "change archive" of the water environment status from occurrence → development → evolution → governance → normalized supervision.

  1. Provides staring updates (ideally 3-5 days) and monthly updates, greatly shortening the handling time of abnormal water quality conditions.

  Data Performance:

  2. Supports full-scale monitoring of water environment conditions from the past few years to any time period in the future, making water pollution traceable.

  2.支持从过去几年到未来任意时间段的水环境状况全量监测,做到水污染有据可循。

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