User Requirements and User Strategy in the AWARE Project

Abstract

AWARE (A tool for monitoring and forecasting Available WAter REsource in mountain environment) is a Project in the VI Framework Programme of European Community. It started in July 2005 and aims at offering methods and tools to monitor and forecast the water resource from Alpine snowmelt by hydrologic models using input data derived from both in situ observations and Earth Observations (EO). In order to reach its objectives, AWARE needs strength collaboration with users. To this purpose activities to raise users’ interests, to meet users’ expectations and to spread Project achievements are planned. This paper describes the strategy used to collect user requirements within AWARE and illustrates some results of the user requirements analysis.