Stakeholders from the Baltic region met at a workshop held in Helsinki in March 2017. The following elements were agreed as priority interests to be addressed by ESA funded projects:
- Platform services and processing resources:
- Reliable, robust regional data access and processing capabilities for all EO data, including rapid access to data
- Platform as a Service capabilities from a Network of Platforms to support National, Regional and Commercial analytics
- Innovative visualization tools
- On-boarding all Baltic data collections to make them available through Data-as-a-Service functionalities
- Earth Science
- Dedicated products for the Baltic, where traditional methods/products do not work: Ocean colour, sea level, coastal altimetry, salinity and new dedicated S2 products
- Characterization of biochemical exchanges (land-sea and air-sea) including salinity dynamics
- Characterizing and closing the water cycle of the Baltic
- 4D reconstruction of Baltic ocean dynamics by integration of EO and modelling
- Characterizing and predicting major Baltic inflows
- EO Applications/Exploitation
- Enhanced common MFSP/WFD/MSP monitoring & assessment combined with EO based territorial planning and ecosystem based approaches
- Improved natural capital/ecosystems monitoring & assessment
- Address gap in characterizing ecosystem regulating and supporting services
- Regional approach for status mapping for key natural resources (eg grasslands)