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CyAN mobile app client REST API - A programmer’s and user’s guide
Citation:
Galvin, M. CyAN mobile app client REST API - A programmer’s and user’s guide. U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
A programmer's and user's guide for the CyAN mobile app client REST API
Description:
The timely distribution of satellite derived data is necessary for adaptive water quality management decision making. Prompt dissemination of remotely sensed water quality data enables public warnings within days and the ability to issue seasonal assessments in the same calendar year. Distribution of satellite-derived water quality products also assists with more targeted deployment of existing federal, state, tribal, and municipal water quality monitoring. Specifically, software platforms that permit timely, useful, and cost-effective delivery of information from satellites are required to help managers respond to cyanobacterial and nuisance algal blooms. The Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) mobile application uses satellite-derived information from the European Space Agency Ocean Land Color Instrument (OLCI) onboard Sentinel-3 to help make initial water quality assessments and quickly alert managers to potential problems and emerging threats related to cyanobacteria abundance. With the CyAN mobile application, water quality managers will have a user friendly platform that will reduce the complexities associated with harnessing satellite data to make fast, efficient initial assessments. The CyAN app will support the viewing of water quality at continental to lake shed scales in near-real time to put cyanobacteria abundance data directly the hands of water quality managers and stakeholders.