Objective Satellite SAR images from ERS and ENVISAT and RADARSAT will be used to develop and validate retrieval algorithms for ocean and sea ice parameters. The SAR data will be analysed in combination with optical and IR data, met-ocean data from models and in situ platforms. The main tools in the SAR analysis will be the Radar Imaging Model (RIM) and the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) model provided by NIERSC and the SARTool provided by BOOST Technologies. The performance of existing algorithms for retrieval of oil slicks, wind, waves, sea ice parameters will be investigated as part of a benchmarking process. SAR monitoring exercises will be conducted in the three study areas with support from other met-ocean and satellite data. The data analysis will result in geophysical information (wind, waves, currents, fronts, slicks, sea ice parameters). Identified users will receive and assess the information and provide feedback to the service provides. The monitoring exercise will test the functioning of the service chain starting with input data and resulting in products delivered to users. An important element of marine monitoring services is to provide efficient and user friendly access to the products delivered by the service providers. For this purpose, MONRUK will develop and implement a webmap server system which is a web-based, distributed, marine information management system following INSPIRE guidelines. A prototype system, DISPRO, is available at (http://dispro.ucc.ie/apps/dismar). By extending DISPRO toin several GMES projects, there will be a significant progress towards implementation of harmonized, pan-European, interoperable systems to provide data and information about the marine environment. Finally, MONRUK will establish a network with other related projects, organizations and agencies which are involved in developing operational oceanography services across Europe. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata scienceengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradarnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesoceanography Programme(s) FP6-AEROSPACE - Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) AERO-2005-2.3.2.1g - International cooperation Call for proposal FP6-2005-SPACE-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER Address Thormøhlensgate 47 Bergen Norway See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Western road Cork See on map Links Website Opens in new window COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 8-10 rue hermes - park technologiques du canal Ramonville saint agne See on map SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION "NANSEN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTRE" Russia EU contribution € 0,00 Address 14-th line, 7, office 49, vasil'evskii ostrov St. petersburg See on map Links Website Opens in new window MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Ukraine EU contribution € 0,00 Address Kapitanskaya 2 Sevastopol See on map Links Website Opens in new window CENTER OF ASTROPHYSICAL RESEARCH, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN Kazakhstan EU contribution € 0,00 Address Shevchenko 15 Almaty See on map COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, DIRECTORATE GENERAL JRC Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Brussels See on map Links Website Opens in new window
