Descrizione del progetto
Monitorare le coste per salvare i nostri litorali
Le zone costiere, rinomate per l’abbondanza di habitat e i preziosi servizi ecosistemici che offrono, sono attualmente sotto pressione a causa delle attività umane e dello sfruttamento delle risorse. Questa situazione determina perdita di biodiversità, inquinamento, distruzione degli habitat e ai conflitti in relazione all’utilizzo dello spazio. In questo contesto, il progetto CoastObs, finanziato dall’UE, sfrutterà l’osservazione della Terra (OT) per fornire una visione sinottica e una copertura frequente. Con il lancio dei satelliti Sentinel di Copernicus, CoastObs svilupperà una piattaforma di servizi per il monitoraggio delle acque costiere. Coinvolgendo utenti proveAnienti da vari settori, il progetto mira a creare prodotti innovativi basati sull’OT, tra cui il monitoraggio di fanerogame e macroalghe, la categorizzazione delle dimensioni dei fitoplancton, la produzione primaria, alghe nocive e altro ancora. L’obiettivo è creare catene di approvvigionamento sostenibili da integrare nei sistemi degli utenti.
Obiettivo
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
Campo scientifico
- 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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Meccanismo di finanziamento
IA - Innovation actionCoordinatore
6716 BR Ede
Paesi Bassi
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