Acronym PREDICT
Category
Fisheries
Title Integrating multidisciplinary geoscientific data into forecasting models to monitor and predict coastal change: Proof of concept in Dublin Bay Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator NA Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
DCU - Dublin City University (Ireland)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2018 End year 2021 Funding (€) € NA Website NA Summary Satellite-based environmental data is an important asset that can provide cost effective and timely information for mapping, monitoring, and managing coastal environments. It is therefore a major tool that we can use to address societal challenges such as coastal flooding, port security or marine pollution. A primary objective of our project is a coordinated program of coastal ocean observations that will be used to validate, calibrate and extract as much information as possible from satellite earth observation data. We will integrate these datasets to generate models that can be used to predict environmental change. These models will contribute to future planning in a diversity of areas such as coastal mapping, flooding prediction, marine habitats and fisheries, climate change, environmental protection and policy. The project aims to provide experimental proof-of-concept in Dublin Bay that can be extrapolated to a range of environments. All data and models produced will be made publicly available. The project is multi-disciplinary and will integrate mathematical modelling, remote and in-situ sensing, physical and chemical oceanography and seabed mapping. Implementation will be accomplished using a suite of open source tools such as satellite data and validated with comprehensive ground-truthing of water and sediment chemical, biological and physical properties.
Keywords
Monitoring;
Aquaculture management;
Habitat mapping;
Fisheries management;
Marine Region
7
Irish Sea (27.VIIa)
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Marine Region Map
