Monitoring the marine environment in Russia, Ukraine and Kasakhstan using satellite synthetic aperture radar

Project Information

MONRUK

Grant agreement ID: 31001

Start date 1 July 2007

End date 30 June 2009

Funded under

• Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 1 044 228,00

EU contribution € 632 314,00

Coordinated by

NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER
Norway

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 sciences › computer and information sciences › data science
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › satellite technology
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › radio technology › radar
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › oceanography

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
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Thormøhlensgate 47 ; BERGEN ; Norway
• Total cost: No data

Participants (6)

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND,

Ireland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Western Road ; CORK
• Total cost: No data

COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 8-10 RUE HERMES - PARK TECHNOLOGIQUES DU CANAL ; RAMONVILLE SAINT AGNE
• Total cost: No data

SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION "NANSEN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTRE"

Russia

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 14-th Line, 7, Office 49, Vasil'evskii Ostrov ; ST. PETERSBURG
• Total cost: No data

MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Ukraine

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Kapitanskaya 2 ; SEVASTOPOL
• Total cost: No data

CENTER OF ASTROPHYSICAL RESEARCH, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Kazakhstan

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Shevchenko 15 ; ALMATY
• Total cost: No data

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, DIRECTORATE GENERAL JRC

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: BRUSSELS
• Total cost: No data