Weymouth (125) Lowestoft (375)

RV Endeavour

Smarter Marine Monitoring from Space

Rodney Forster, Cefas

1- Current uses in monitoring, operations and forecasting (GMES)

2- Looking forward to Copernicus Marine Core Service and Sentinels

3- Dealing with 10x volume of data

Marine user segment

Ocean colour from space

SeaWIFS / MODIS / MERIS

1997 – 2014

Sediments and optics

Chlorophyll and algal blooms

Applications in the marine sector

Standard EO(300-9000 m)

Higher-res EO(1 – 30m)

Eutrophication DT [chl a; optics]

Marine Energy

offshore wind DT [SPM; optics] DT [SPM; optics]

nuclear NRT [SST; chl a]

Fisheries research NRT [SST; chl a; fronts] DT [chl a; optics]

Southern North Sea – water quality

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Validated chlorophyll time series using mix of satellite (MERIS, MODIS, Sentinel) and in situ (buoys, ferrybox, ships, CPR)

UK water quality assessment - chlorophyll

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Irish Sea

Southern North Sea

Eastern Channel

Western Channel & Celtic Sea

Northern North Sea

Autonomous marine observations in support of offshore windSpace, airborne and in situ observations can be of great use to offshore wind industry

Viewing angles of LiDAR for within farm wind fields

Regional scale wind mapping from satellite SAR; wake effects with airborne SAR

Norsewind project (Hasager et al.)

Research at Cefas – looking at the local effects of windfarms on cloud and fog formations using ocean colour satellite obs.

East Anglia

Galloper

London Array 1

Galloper

London Array 2

Greater Gabbard

Thanet

Greater GabbardGalloper

Kentish Flats 1

Gunfleet Sands I

Kentish Flats 2

Gunfleet Sands II

Autonomous marine observations in support of offshore wind

London Array 1

London Array 2

Imaging of windfarm environment using visible satellite imagery

Very High Resolution (1m) QuickBird, RapidEye single monopile

High Resolution (25-60m)Landsat, DMC, Sentinel II farm scale

Moderate Resolution (300m -1000m)MERIS, MODIS Sentinel-III regional scale

Autonomous marine observations in support of offshore wind

Flood tide 3rd September 2013

London Array 1

London Array 2

London Array 1

London Array 2

Ebb tide 12th September 2013

Diurnal variability of Turbidity (RBINS, Cefas)

[Neukermans et al, 2012; Neukermans, 2012]

SEVIRI In situMODIS

Turbidity (FNU)

Imaging from geostationary satellite

Quasi cloudfree 60% clouded

remotely sensed ( ) vs. in-situ ( , ) diurnal variability of turbidity

SBmaxT

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SEVIRI In situMODIS

Turbidity (FNU)

Imaging from geostationary satellite

HIGHROC

GMES Downstream Services

e.g. MARCOAST

End-Users:EU Water + Marine Strategy Framework

Directives

Medium resolutionOcean Colour

MERIS, MODIS … Sentinel-3/OCLI

300m, 1day

HIGHROC

High temporalresolution

MSG/SEVIRI

15mins

High spatialresolutionSentinel-2

New applications: Windfarms, dredging,

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“High spatial and temporal resolution ocean colour products and services” EU/FP7 funded: 2014-2017 Consortium: RBINS/MUMM, UPMC/LOV, NIVA, BC, VITO, CEFAS

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FP7 Space call HIGHROC (2014-2018)