In order to monitor developments of Ontwikkelingsschets 2010 (OS2010) in the Scheldt estuary, validated data series and reports need to be created. These reports, constructed annually, give a preliminary look at the available data and a basic description thereof. Any interpretations made in these reports are based on simple data analysis, without any indications on the cause-consequence relationships.
OntwikkelingsSchets 2010
Projects in the OntwikkelingsSchets 2010 (OS2010) aim to initiate multiple changes in the Scheldt estuary, and thus improving the accessibility, safety and environmental value of the system. However, it is important that these projects do not cause other (negative) effects as well. Therefore, an integrated monitoring system is mandatory.
Report Western Scheldt
The 1st-line reports for the Western Scheldt was published in 2011. In this report, data from 1996 until 2010 was described. Since, a new report is published every year, where an additional year of monitoring data is described. Only in 2020 no report was published, because time was spent into re-establishing the methodologies used in these reports.
The report is made by Deltares in commission of Rijkswaterstaat (RWS).
Since 2019, the report is generated completely through R and the RMarkdown package. The most recent report is therefor always available in both a HTML and PDF format, using the link below:
Reports Sea Scheldt - Geomorphology, Habitats and Species
The Sea Scheldt, which is the Belgian part of the Scheldt estuary, has its own editions of the report. The report is made up by data from the MONEOS monitoring campaign. The Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) is responsible for the geomorphological and biological data. The first report was published in 2011 and describes data from 1996 until 2010.
Reports Sea Scheldt - Physio-chemical
Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) is responsible for the reports that describe all physio-chemical monitoring, of which the first edition was published in 2012.
Reports Sea Scheldt - Hydrodynamics
Flanders Hydraulics (WL) is responsible for the reports that describe all hydrodynamic monitoring.