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Multiparametric buoy for limnological monitoring of Laguna Charca de Suárez. Andalusia (Spain)

The wetland area called "Charca de Suárez" is located in the municipality of Motril, near the Poniente beach of said municipality, on the land called "Pago de Suárez", from which it receives its name. This surface occupies an area of ​​13.50 hectares, limited by coastal urbanizations and the Alborán industrial estate.

These wetlands are part of an area located between Nerja (Málaga) and Adra (Almería), where the union of a series of factors of a tectonic, lithological, climatic and anthropic nature has favored the appearance of wetlands very close to the coast linked exclusively to the Deltas of the main rivers.


The "Charca Suárez" is a surface of perennial, although fluctuating, free water that is fed both by groundwater from the Motril-Salobreña aquifer and by contributions from return water from the irrigation of La Vega. This surface comes from the transformation of the Guadalfeo River Delta, which due to the increase in sedimentation in the area, produced a retreat of the coastline giving rise to the Motril-Salobreña Valley, where finally, due to the dominance of fluvial sedimentation against the erosive action of coastal waters, a fluvial system of intertwined channels was created, where the frequent changes in the position of the channel gave rise to the appearance of waterlogged areas.


For limnological monitoring of wetlands, multiparametric probes have been installed on watertight buoys that are energy autonomous and connected to the Internet. Every 2 hours, 5 environmental and aerial measurements are taken (temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and intensity and GPS position) in addition to 10 submerged variables (Temperature at 4 depths, pH, Dissolved oxygen, Turbidity, conductivity, salinity, nitrates, chlorophyll, ultrasound depth).


Within the framework of the INDALO project, the probes will provide information as laboratories to assess the effects generated by Climate Change.

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Date (Publication)
2024-12-10
Presentation form
Digital table
Purpose

Monitoring and alert system in real time to control the physicochemical characteristics of the water mass on a continuous basis to complement the monitoring of birds in wetlands.


The need arises when it is identified that the monitoring of sensitive wetlands in Andalusia was left incomplete by analyzing only the bird community, and not integrating the physicochemical characteristics of the water mass on a continuous basis. It was necessary to have knowledge of specific incidents in real time that would allow space managers to act (dumps, sudden changes in temperature, etc...).

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Red de Información Ambiental de Andalucía (REDIAM) - Junta de Andalucía

Servicio de Análisis de la Información Ambiental - Consejería de Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente - Junta de Andalucía. - España

rediam.atiende.csma@juntadeandalucia.es

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Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Red de Información Ambiental de Andalucía (REDIAM) - Junta de Andalucía

Servicio de Análisis de la Información Ambiental - Consejería de Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente - Junta de Andalucía. - España

rediam.atiende.csma@juntadeandalucia.es

Publisher
Theme
  • wetland

  • lagoon

  • limnology

Place
  • Andalusia, Spain

  • Laguna Charca de Suárez

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Environmental monitoring facilities

  • Hydrography

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0)

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Language
Spanish; Castilian
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Inland waters
  • Environment
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Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:SOS

https://sos.beta.lifewatch.eu/service?service=SOS&version=2.0.0&request=DescribeSensor&procedure=http://sos.lifewatch.eu/boyasMultiparametricas/_458&procedureDescriptionFormat=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opengis.net%2Fsensorml%2F2.0

SOS service for access to data from the Laguna Escondida multiparametric probe

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--partners

https://sos.beta.lifewatch.eu/api/datasets?services=1&procedures=1093&datasetTypes=timeseries&observationTypes=simple&valueTypes=quantity%2Ccount

The SensorWeb Server Helgoland API

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Dataset

Metadata

File identifier
a6d1cd7b-bd10-4ddc-991d-71409a72681c XML
Metadata language
Spanish; Castilian
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
Seguimiento limnológico de humedales en Andalucía (España) con datos obtenidos mediante boyas multiparamétricas

d496c106-9132-4fea-99d5-dfe9015cd330

Date stamp
2025-02-27T11:59:48.268861Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
Point of contact

Red de Información Ambiental de Andalucía (REDIAM) - Junta de Andalucía

Servicio de Análisis de la Información Ambiental - Consejería de Sostenibilidad y Medio Ambiente - Junta de Andalucía. - España

rediam.atiende.csma@juntadeandalucia.es

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French
German
Chinese(Other)
Arabic
Russian
English UTF8
Spanish; Castilian UTF8
 
 

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Keywords

lagoon limnology wetland
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Environmental monitoring facilities Hydrography

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