Download How? Marine Core Service Implementation projects

GMES - MyOcean: operational
oceanography, a source of new economic
and environmental services
Nadia Pinardi
University of Bologna
and
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna
Outline
• A short history of the GMES initiative for
the oceans and seas
• The GMES Marine Core Service
implementation: the MyOcean project
• The gaps and final considerations
GMES for the oceans,
an EU and ESA initiative
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What?
 A Core Service = European Public Service with ‘generic
products’ for multiple users
 Many Downstream Services = services that stem out of
core products, tailored information services
When?
 Definition phase: 2000-2007, FP6 DG-Research projects
 Operational implementation phase: 2008-2014 FP7 Space
Program
How?
– Marine Core Service Implementation projects :
– MyOcean (Mercator-Ocean, Fr) 2009-2012:
EU 33 Meuro/3 years
– MyOcean-2 (Mercator-Ocean, Fr) 2012-2014:
negotiation started
– Several downstream service projects
The Marine Core Service functions
Satellite
and
in situ
data
Geoportal
For
Data
Access
The Marine Core Service will deliver regular and systematic
reference information on the state of the oceans and regional
seas of known quality and accuracy
MyOcean Project:
Marine Core Service implementation
An INSPIRE compliant GEOPORTAL
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One Catalogue for Ocean
Core Information
– Temperature, Salinity, Currents,
Chlorophyll, Sea Level, Ice
variables, other bio-variables
– Re-analyses, NowCasts,
Forecasts
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One access point for
– Discovering, visualization,
downloading and
transformation of marine
information
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Only information with an
Open Data Policy
– Open access
– Free access
The MyOcean service areas
Arctic
Baltic
North West
Shelves
Global
Ocean
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Eastern North
Atlantic
A Pan-European
network of
existing
infrastructures,
value-added by
the GMES
initiative,
coordinated and
with common
quality
standards
The Marine Core Service for users:
4 areas of benefit
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MyOcean will deliver a
service to
– European agencies
(EEA, EMSA, EDA, ...)
– Member State Users:
National / Regional
Service Providers
(public or private)
MARINE SAFETY
– Intergovernmental
bodies (OSPAR,
UNEP-MAP, HELCOM,
ICES, ...)
– Private businesses
MyOcean User network now, after 18
months from the start
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• MyOcean users are from 39 different countries
• 65% are from Europe, 35% from the rest of the world
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Marine and coastal environment:
land pollution control
Very near coastal model started
from MyOcean products
Assessment of pollution from
land sources and their impact
In the sea
Marine Safety:
oil spill emergency management
Point of release
MODIS-ACQUA image July 23
Oil concentration predicted by
MFS-MEDSLIK
The gap: the in situ data collection
coordinated by a marine research
infrastructure initiative
An artist view of
a Marine Research
Infrastructure component,
coordinated at European
Level and locally managed
Final considerations
• The GMES Marine Core Service produces highly
integrated information from observations and models
about the past and future ocean state for many users
of the ‘ocean territory’
• A Marine Research Infrastructure initiative is needed
to secure the data collection network at European
level, coordinated and harmonized for quality and
scope and supporting the Marine Core Service
• The merging of GMES Marine Core Service with a
Marine Research Infrastructure initiative will enhance
the European competitiveness on innovative ocean
technology