IRIS aims at developing tools for monitoring medium-large river systems from remote sensing to support the implementation of the European Water Framework (WFD) and the European Floods Directive (FD).
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs, also called drones) and traditional field techniques (e.g. RTK-GPS) are used to survey local river features, e.g., topography, sediment size, vegetation, morphological habitats.
These data is then used as ground truth to test what can be detected at large scale from the recent Sentinel satellites from the Copernicus program The objective is to provide prototypal tools and guidelines for an integrate, multi-scale framework for monitoring medium-large river systems fusing most recent advances in remote sensing from satellites, to low-cost UASs and smart sensors.