CyberHAB: Using data cloud services to manage harmful algae blooms
Managing harmful algal blooms is a challenge for local governments and environmental agencies, current methods and processes are still far from ideal. Ecohydros believes that new technologies and big data can pave the way for better and more efficient ways to manage harmful algal blooms.
Duration in months: 12
Problem Description
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) happen when toxic microalgae proliferate beyond control and take over rivers, lakes or ponds with costly environmental and socioeconomic impacts, for example: on fisheries, or on the availability of drinking water. At sea, this phenomenon causes red tides.
Goals
New services
Challenges
Waste management, monitoring systems and other current methods are still far from eliminate the algal issue.
Innovation results
Ecohydros developed CyberHAB, a platform to process and analyse ecological data related to algal blooms. This platform can be used to extract information from monitoring data, converting hundreds of variables and parameters into visualizations to support decision-making.
Business impact
CyberHAB is the first cyberinfrastructure of its kind, a platform powered by cloud computing able to combine large volumes of data for the management of harmful algal blooms. Subscriptions give access to the full range of tools, models to forecast scenarios or methods to generate additional data.