Descripción del proyecto
Vigilancia costera para salvar nuestros litorales
Las zonas costeras, famosas por sus abundantes hábitats y valiosos servicios ecosistémicos, están sometidas a la presión de las actividades humanas y la explotación de recursos, lo que provoca pérdida de biodiversidad, contaminación, destrucción de hábitats y conflictos por el uso del espacio. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto CoastObs, financiado con fondos europeos, aprovechará la observación de la Tierra (OT) para proporcionar una visión sinóptica y una cobertura frecuente. Gracias al lanzamiento de los satélites Sentinel de Copernicus, en CoastObs se desarrollará una plataforma de servicios para la vigilancia de las aguas costeras. En el proyecto, que cuenta con la participación de usuarios de diversos sectores, se pretende crear productos innovadores basados en la OT como, por ejemplo, el seguimiento de las macroalgas y las praderas marinas, la distribución por tamaño del fitoplancton, la producción primaria y las algas nocivas, entre otros. Su objetivo es establecer cadenas de suministro sostenibles que se integren en los sistemas de los usuarios.
Objetivo
Coastal zones are very productive areas, offering many valuable habitats and ecosystems services and attracting human settlements and activities. The intensive concentration of population and excessive exploitation of natural resources puts high pressure on coastal ecosystems leading to biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, pollution as well as conflicts between potential uses and space competition. Several European directives aim at sustainable management of coastal waters, retaining or restoring a high ecological status and safeguarding ecosystem services. Increasing pressure and stricter regulations increase the need for efficient monitoring solutions. Where traditional in situ sampling is insufficient to characterise the highly dynamic coastal environments, Earth Observation (EO) provides a synoptic view and frequent coverage. With the launch of the Copernicus Sentinel satellites, operational water quality services become a business opportunity.
CoastObs will develop a service platform for coastal water monitoring with validated products derived from EO. In dialogue with users from various sectors, CoastObs will develop innovative EO-based products: monitoring of seagrass and macro-algae, phytoplankton size classes, primary production, and harmful algae as well as higher level products such as indicators and integration with predictive models. CoastObs will establish sustainable supply chains that can be directly integrated into the users’ systems. The CoastObs consortium has the knowledge and ambition to develop services that are commercially viable, grow in capacity and thus create new jobs. The business case is to define user groups with common requirements, so tailored products can be developed at highly reduced costs per user. Setup of efficient data structures (array database) for smart (re)processing of data is part of this ambition. The commitment of 13 users to CoastObs demonstrates the need for such user-friendly and affordable coastal water services
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmarine biology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringnatural resources managementwater management
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemscoastal ecosystems
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Régimen de financiación
IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
6716 BR Ede
Países Bajos
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.