Acronym AQUAMAR
Category
Fisheries
Title Marine water quality information services Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project (generic)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
SPACE – Space
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA - ACRI-ST SAS (France) ,
NA - ARGANS Limited (United Kingdom) ,
NA - Brockmann Consult GmbH (Germany) ,
DHI - Danish Hydraulic Institute (Denmark) ,
DMI - Danish Meteorological Institute (Denmark) ,
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute (Finland) ,
FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) ,
DLR - German Aerospace Center (Germany) ,
NIERSC - Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (Russian Federation) ,
NA - Planetek Italia Srl (Italy) ,
PML - Plymouth Marine Laboratory (United Kingdom) ,
RBINS - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium) ,
SatOC - Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
NA - Starlab Barcelona SL (Spain) ,
NA - Water Insight BV (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2010 End year 2013 Funding (€) € 4,875,595 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/241759 Summary Water quality (WQ) is a focus of monitoring agencies and the public, and it is the subject of several European Directives and regional conventions. The AquaMar project will develop and provide downstream services, turning Marine Core Service products into WQ services, as demanded by the end user. The team is composed mainly of SMEs (70%) supported by key scientific partners. The objective is to create a reference technical and organizational body at European level for WQ services, organized as an open partnership. This will be achieved through methodological research extending the traditional WQ portfolio along five novel product lines, turning these into pre-operational services, including adaptation to MCS, and establishing a validation & quality evolution process and data model. This model will be used to evaluate the services with end users through service delivery trials, transferring the developed services to other services providers (SP) through a well-defined process (technical and organizational framework). The service portfolio includes: (1) Indicators for the reporting requirement of the Water Framework Directive and the European Marine Strategy; (2) Algal bloom forecasting; (3) Support to large scale marine infrastructures; (4) Services supporting the Bathing Water directive monitoring; (5) Aquaculture precision farming. This is complemented by research on methods for improved standard WQ products, geo-statistics, and distribution technologies, to be used across the service portfolio. In parallel, a validation and quality evolution strategy is developed and applied, including the services sustainability with regard to new space sensors. A user & customer board is steering the project, participating in the trials and providing feedback to the MCS, the validation and research activities. The aim is to prepare the ground for a sustainable continuation and growth of WQ services, starting from heritage of three GSE projects (CoastWatch, ROSES, MarCoast) comprising a baseline portfolio of standard WQ products, a European wide user base and SP network.
The overall project objective is to build a reference technical body at European scale for water quality services, service quality management and services validation. The aim is to go beyond the state of the art with improved products and novel services, to address new markets and to develop a legal and economic framework for an open partnership of service providers. Validation and quality improvement guidelines will be compulsory. This will be the foundation of a sustainable service provision at European scale, as requested by operational users. This objective can be broken down into the following scientific and technical objectives: (1) To conduct R&D activity to develop novel downstream services: (i) Indicators for the reporting requirement of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), (ii) Algal bloom forecasting, (iii) Support to large scale marine infrastructure, (iv) Services supporting the Bathing Water directive monitoring, (v) Aquaculture precision farming; (2) To build a sustained technical collaboration with the Marine Core Service (MCS) for end-to-end services, validation and quality optimisation; (3) To federate the User community at large; (4) To propose, agree and implement a service quality validation process; (5) To propose, agree and implement a process to harmonize service quality evolution; (6) To disseminate best practices to the service provider's community at large: (i) R&D results on information products, (ii) Service validation process, (iii) Service quality evolution process; (7) To demonstrate impact of the proposed actions on the sustainability of the service network at European scale.
Keywords
Algal toxins;
Monitoring;
Algae;
Sensors;
Technology;
Impacts;
Water quality;
Indicators;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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