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TEMITH – Total Ecosystem Management of the InterTidal Habitat

Prime company: DEIMOS SPACE UK LTD (GB)

Intertidal habitats are highly productive areas; they provide bird habitat and feeding areas, commercial fish nursery grounds as well as the ecosystem services of nutrient cycling and coastal protection. Globally, these habitats are in decline due to overexploitation, direct damage and numerous other stressors. Achieving total ecosystem management (TEM) to support conservation and sustainable exploitation …

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European coastal erosion under the spotlight

During the last few years, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine coast has been repeatedly hit by severe storms causing coastline retreat of several meters (from 10 to 40 meters in 2013-2014, from 5 to 13 meters in 2018). Modelled sea-level rise impact on the same coastline is projected to cause (see the Néo Terra 2019 and the AcclimaTerra …

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Sargassum monitoring service

Prime company: CLS COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES (FR)

The project objective is to develop and implement an innovative automated service based on Earth Observation (EO) data to monitor floating Sargassum algae in the Caribbean area, estimate their drift and eventual landings on the coasts, and provide dedicated bulletins to the end-users.

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Monitoring sargassum drift with Sentinel-3 and MODIS

Since 2011, sargassum rafts of unprecedented size have had been found on Caribbean shores, with a strong impact on tourism, fisheries and wildlife. As sargassum decomposes on beaches, it releases disagreeable odours. Removal is time-consuming and expensive as mats can be several meters thick. Tourists are bothered by sargassum, and incoming rafts smother sea grasses …

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BathySent – An Innovative Method to Retrieve Global Coastal Bathymetry from Sentinel-2

Prime company: BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES (BRGM) (FR)

The BathySent project aims at the development of an automated method for mapping coastal bathymetry (water depths) on the basis of Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The interest of using Sentinel-2 data lies on the capacity to cover large areas (National and European scale targeted), while benefiting from the high repeat cycle (5 days) of the mission. …

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S2 for Land and Water, Coastal and Inland Waters Theme

Prime company: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (CH)

This project aims at developing and validating inland water circulation models coupled with remote sensing data to better understand the processes involved in these water bodies. It will investigate the potential of the S-2 radiometric data products to constrain hydrodynamic and ecological models of at least three water body types covering as wide a range …

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Sentinel-2 Atmospheric Correction

Prime company: ACRI-HE SAS (FR)

This project aims to develop and validate an atmospheric corrections scheme to produce high quality surface reflectance from Sentinel-2 data for coastal waters. The objective of this study is to develop, test, implement and validate methods (or combination of methods) for deriving atmospheric correction above coastal waters and over inland waters, to validate them according …

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Scientists Workshops

New Achievements in Coastal Altimetry

SAR altimetry missions are boosting new developments in fields that exploit the quality of high-resolution products for sea surface topography, wave height, and wind speed. To review recent progress in and discuss future plans for altimetry technology at coasts, 88 scientists from 28 countries met at the 11th Coastal Altimetry Workshop earlier this summer. Read more …

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CryoSat Plus For Oceans (CP4O)

Prime company: SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD. (GB)

The “CryoSat Plus for Oceans” (CP4O) project, supported by the ESA Support to Science Element (STSE) Programme and by CNES, was dedicated to the exploitation of CryoSat-2 data over the open and coastal ocean. The general objectives of the CP4O project were: To build a sound scientific basis for new oceanographic applications of CryoSat­-2 data; …

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