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Rheticus Marine in support to EU Marine strategy
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Rheticus® Marine is an innovative, high-performing geoinformation service for monitoring coastal water quality. Rheticus® Marine is fueled by streams of information from the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) and EMODnet. It serves customers in the Mediterranean Sea region. The use of streamlined satellite data, processed to a high level (Level 3) by CMEMS, is part of what makes Rheticus® so fast. Rheticus® Marine uses specialized regional algorithms to deliver a wider range of water quality parameters, which can be compared with local data collected by regional authorities. Maps and statistics on eutrophication (i.e. chlorophyll, turbidity and transparency) are provided both automatically and on-demand. With a near real time coastal water quality monitoring at 1km resolution, Rheticus® Marine ensures a steady flow of data for rapid responses to pollution events or algal blooms. Easy visualization and mapping allows displaying water quality parameters thanks a user-friendly web interface with time travel and customized area selection. A cloud-based geoinformation service automates complex processing chains to deliver services regularly, rapidly and reliably. Rheticus® Marine can access to both internal and external resources (data sources, processing modules or external catalogues), and presents the results through a single point of access.
• Rheticus® Marine is devoted to monitor coastal water quality and eutrophication status, and pinpointing problematic areas. It helps customers in the public sector to implement environmental policies from local to international level, meeting the requirements in the field of marine environment policy (e.g. MSFD, WFD). It assists authorities in charge of environmental monitoring to drive specific hot-spot field surveys, anticipate risky situations and/or prevent illegal sewage discharge. It supports private actors involved in marine resource exploitation activities such as desalination, fisheries, aquaculture, offshore drilling, waste water treatments, tourism. • Planetek Italia is an Italian SME established in 1994. It provides solutions to exploit the value of geospatial data through all phases of data life cycle from acquisition, storage, management up to analysis and sharing. It operates in many application areas ranging from environmental and land monitoring to open-government and smart cities as well as scientific missions and planetary exploration.
Products used
MEDITERRANEAN SEA SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION FROM MULTI SATELLITE AND SENTINEL-3 OLCI OBSERVATIONS
MEDITERRANEAN SEA - HIGH RESOLUTION AND ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION L3S SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
MEDITERRANEAN SEA REMOTE SENSING REFLECTANCES AND ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT AT 490NM FROM MULTI SATELLITE AND SENTINEL-3 OLCI OBSERVATIONS
• Supports national and regional authorities for EU directive implementation • VIDEO: Use Case: Rheticus Marine for Coastal water quality Reporting - PLANETEK
Benefits for users Useful links
• Rheticus Marine Official Website
• Planetek Italia Official Website
• More info about EMODnet data: click here
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Economy
Copernicus Marine Service supports all sectors of the Blue Economy.
Environment
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POLAR ENVIRONMENT MONITORING
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data products for the Polar Environment Monitoring sector to assess environmental impacts at both poles.
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OCEAN HEALTH
The Copernicus Marine Service provides important inputs to monitor the ocean’s state and vital health signs, essential for the well-being of life on Earth.
Society
SCIENCE & INNOVATION
The Copernicus Marine Service provides scientists and businesses with ocean data, allowing them to innovate their practices and build new applications and services for intermediate and final users.
EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH & RECREATION
The Copernicus Marine Service supports businesses and non-profit organizations to develop public health, ocean literacy and educational tools to raise awareness on the many challenges facing the ocean.
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CLIMATE & ADAPTATION
The Copernicus Marine Service provides scientists with ocean data and information to conduct their environmental, climate and oceanographic research to support climate adaptation.
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MARINE CONSERVATION & BIODIVERSITY
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data to monitor marine biodiversity and to protect Marine Protected Areas, preserving at-risk ecosystems.
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POLICIES & OCEAN GOVERNANCE & MITIGATION
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data to support European Member States in the implementation of European Directives. It also collaborates with international institutions to support Ocean Governance.
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EXTREMES, HAZARDS & SAFETY
The Copernicus Marine Service supports safety at sea and pollution response by providing oceanic parameters for extreme situations at sea and pollutant drift forecasts.
Economy
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MARINE FOOD
The Copernicus Marine Service supports the management of aquaculture farms and the sustainable exploitation of ocean’s living resources.
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TRADE & MARINE NAVIGATION
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key ocean parameters contributing to safer and more ecological marine navigation.
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COSTAL SERVICES
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data that can be used to develop high-resolution coastal models to manage and monitor coastal areas.
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NATURAL RESOURCES & ENERGY
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data products for the oil & gas, deep sea mining and marine renewable energy sectors.
COPERNICUS MARINE DATA FOR Marine Conservation & Biodiversity
Research institutes
Horizon projects
AVAILABLE VARIABLES MICRONEKTON NUTRIENTSACIDITYAMOUNT OF OXYGEN TRANSPARENCY TURBIDITY OCEAN CURRENTS
CHLOROPHYLL-APlankton functional type Plankton size class TEMPERATURE
National & local authorities
Governmental & public agencies
NGOs
BENEFITS
Predicting ocean species distribution and suitable reproduction areas Run habitat modelling using Copernicus Marine Service data
Better knowledge of migration routes Better understand ocean species behaviour
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIETAL IMPACTS
Preserving species from extinction Increasing the marine ecosystem resilience Fighting against overfishing and helping for a better management of fish stocks
