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New Copernicus capability for trophic ocean networks

Description du projet

Renforcer la capacité de Copernicus à surveiller les écosystèmes marins européens

La biodiversité des océans est la source de subsistance de près de la moitié de la population mondiale. Le changement climatique et les activités humaines mettent toutefois en péril cette biodiversité, raison pour laquelle il importe d’en assurer une surveillance continue. Le service marin européen de Copernicus assure cette surveillance, mais les modèles et méthodes actuels gagneraient à être perfectionnés. Le projet NECCTON, financé par l’UE, fusionnera de nouvelles données dans des modèles d’écosystèmes innovants. Cette démarche permettra au service marin de Copernicus de proposer des produits encore plus pertinents pour la conservation de la biodiversité et la gestion des ressources alimentaires marines à l’échelle mondiale, en accordant une attention particulière aux mers régionales d’Europe.

Objectif

The ocean’s biodiversity supports the livelihoods of over three billion people, providing vital services, including food and nutrient cycling. However marine policy and resource management do not yet consider the latest scientific advances, even when the state-of-the-art operational models of the European Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) are used.
Our objective is to enable CMEMS to deliver novel products that inform marine biodiversity conservation and food resources management, by fusing new data into innovative ecosystem models that integrate biological and abiotic components, habitats, and stressors of marine ecosystems.
NECCTON will inter-link new models in the CMEMS systems, thus building novel capacities to simulate higher-trophic-levels, benthic habitats, pollutants, and deliver projections of climate change impacts. We will develop and exploit new data-processing chains, supporting CMEMS' use of novel ecosystem observations, including new hyperspectral data from satellites, as well as available acoustic, pollution and omics data. We will fuse these new data and models by using innovative machine-learning algorithms to improve models and data assimilation methods. These developments will be applied in thirteen case studies, co-designed with fisheries and conservation managers as part of our pathway-to-impact, resulting in the demonstration of Technological Readiness Level 6 of NECCTON products.
The project objectives will be achieved by a team of twenty-three world-class organizations with track records for all the key project components. It includes the CMEMS Entrusted Entity and core developers, who will promote the final uptake of NECCTON by CMEMS.
On project completion, NECCTON will provide CMEMS with the scientific and technical capabilities to sustain twenty-five new products in their operational portfolio, ultimately enabling users to make informed decisions on the exploitation of marine services, enhancing sustainability and conservation.

Coordinateur

MERCATOR OCEAN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 129 125,00
Adresse
2 AVENUE DE L AERODROME DE MONTAUDRAN
31400 Toulouse
France

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Région
Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées Haute-Garonne
Type d’activité
Research Organisations
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Coût total
€ 1 129 125,00

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