During the summer of 2021, Växjö municipality in Sweden will test a new service to use satellite to monitor if there are algal blooms in the lakes Helgasjön, Örken, Innaren, Växjösjön, Trummen, Norra Bergundasjön and Södra Bergundasjön.
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Mobilapp varnar för algblomning
The CyanoAlert services for 2021 has now started in several regions and intense spring blooms have been observed in several Swedish lakes.
Lake Mälaren, Sweden, 2021-04-08. Sentinel-2 image courtesy of ESA.
- Lake Mälaren has a long history with problems concerning algal blooms and eutrophication. There are just over three million people living around Lake Mälaren and they are using it for swimming and recreation. It is also the lake we take most drinking water from and it is also a problem for the water treatment plant with algal blooms, says Ingrid Hägermark at the Lake Mälaren's Society for Water Conservation.
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Satelliter varnar om algblomning i Mälaren
Figure: In the movie clip Ingrid Hägermark at the Lake Mälaren's Society for Water Conservation explains how the service works. Photo: SVT.
Algae blooms in Lake Mälaren are now measured with new technology. Anyone who wants to can check the situation at their bathing site with the CyanoAlert app in their mobile phone. Nine municipalities and water conservation societies around Lake Mälaren are participating...
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Upptäck fräschaste badplatsen - med hjälp av satellitbilder
Figure: Screenshot from the interview (by Expressen, a Swedish national newspaper) with Ingrid Hägermark at the Lake Mälaren's Society for Water Conservation.
As of this summer, satellites will be used to assess the risk of algal blooms in Lake Mälaren. Anyone who wants to can check the situation at their bathing site with the CyanoAlert app in their mobile phone.
- This is because we have major problems with algal blooms, says Ingrid Hägermark at the Lake Mälaren's Society for Water Conservation.
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Satelliter hjälper dig hitta fräschaste badplatsen
Figure: A processed satellite image of Lake Mälaren (Sweden) showing chlorophyll/algaee in the water. Blue represents low levels and red higher levels. Photo: © Copernicus data (2020), processing: CyanoAlert®.
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