Description du projet
Surveiller les côtes pour sauver nos rivages
Les zones côtières, réputées pour l’abondance de leurs habitats et la valeur de leurs services écosystémiques, sont soumises à la pression des activités humaines et de l’exploitation des ressources. Il en résulte une perte de biodiversité, une forte pollution, la destruction d’habitats et des conflits relatifs à l’utilisation de l’espace. Dans ce contexte, le projet CoastObs, financé par l’UE, s’appuiera sur l’observation de la Terre pour fournir une vue synoptique et une couverture régulière. Avec le lancement des satellites Copernicus Sentinel, CoastObs développera une plateforme de services de surveillance des eaux côtières. En impliquant des utilisateurs issus de différents secteurs, le projet vise à créer des produits innovants basés sur l’observation de la Terre, notamment pour la surveillance des herbiers marins et des macroalgues, des classes de taille du phytoplancton, de la production primaire, des algues nuisibles, etc. Son objectif est d’établir des chaînes d’approvisionnement durables qui seront intégrées aux systèmes des utilisateurs.
Objectif
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
Champ scientifique
- 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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IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
6716 BR Ede
Pays-Bas
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.