This page is no longer updated. The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute joined forces with SCRI joined forces on 1 April 2011 to create The James Hutton Institute.
The project is aimed at the improvement of models for monitoring and forecasting river runoff in mountainous and high latitude basins where snowmelt is a major component of the water balance.
The main objectives are:
Customer definition of requirements for runoff modelling and short-term runoff forecasting, and communication with customers throughout the project.
Modification of models used to calculate runoff for improved handling and use of remote sensing information (Snow Runoff Model (SRM) of Rango and Martinec, and HBV model of SMHI)
Development of methods of extraction of hydrological parameters, from satellite data, for these models.
Customer validation of the hydrological models for water management applications.
Customer assessment of improvements to the models due to the remote sensing contribution.
Customer assessment of the cost effectiveness of the models
To make the developed modelling and forecasting system available to the public in electronic form, including online demonstration packages, through CEO Enabling Services