Context and objectives
This project is the continuation of a former project, CLIMLAKE started in 2001, extending until the beginning of 2005 and also financed by the SPO (EV/13/02). This project addressed the recent concerns about climate variability (ENSO) and its effect on ecological processes in Lake Tanganyika. The main components of the project were environmental monitoring, study of present plankton, geochemical studies, diatoms analysis in sediment cores and development of an eco-hydrodynamic model. In this project, the potential contribution of Remote Sensing (RS) data was underestimated. This is why the CLIMFISH project was launched. The general objectives of CLIMFISH are (1) to investigate the impact of recent environmental changes on the fisheries of Lake Tanganyika using weather and limnological monitoring, fisheries statistics, remote sensing and eco-hydrodynamics modelling; (2) to use those results and the ECO-SLIM model, developed in the former research program, under expected climate change most likely scenarios to evaluate the future of the fisheries at Lake Tanganyika; (3) to evaluate the feasibility of developing an ECO-FISH model as a forecasting tool for the managers of Lake Tanganyika fisheries.
Project outcome
Expected scientific results
RS data download nearly finished (MODIS only)
Test of several algorithms of atmospheric correction and Chlor-a concentration computation
Batch processing in course RS Missing data filling planned in December 2005
Validation using the permanent stations of Kigoma and Mpulungu (if possible)
RS output exchange with other teams (fisheries-limnology and modelling) planned for December 2005
RS output interdisciplinary (fisheries-limnology and modelling) interpretation in 2006
Project leader(s): | MRAC/KMMA - Surface environments and collection management | |
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