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Athens, May 28° 2015

European Maritime DaysMarine data and information powering Blue Growth

Marine services in the Mediterranean Sea: TESSA and EMODnet MedSea Checkpoint projects

Antonio Guarnieri (INGV), Palmalisa Marra (Links)

Marine data and information powering Blue GrowthMarine services in the Mediterranean Sea – MedSea CheckPoint Project

Antonio Guarnieri(Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

On behalf ofMedSea Checkpoint Consortium Partners

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Generalities of the Project

Name: Growth and innovation in ocean economy – Gaps and priorities in seasasin observation and data – LOT NO: 2 – THE MEDITERRANEAN

Duration: 36 months (4/12/2013 – 3/12/2016)

10 Partners

The Funding: 1.095.000 €(Funded by EU through DG-MARE)

• INGV

• CLS

• CNR

• CLU

•HCMR

• IFREMER

• NKUA

• OCEANS CAT• SOCIB

• UCY

5 Subcontractors

• CMCC

• ENEA

• EDF-EN

• FEM

• IH Cantabria

from 3 European CountriesFrom 5 European Countries

http://www.emodnet-mediterranean.eu/

The Concepts

• The concept of Check Points was first introduced within the Marine Knowledge 2020• No comprehensive overview on a sea basin scale of gaps and the fitness for purpose of the present monitoring for different application areas.

• The basin checkpoints stand at the end of a long value adding chain and they feed back to the European Data Collection Framework by assessing the quality of the monitoring Systems.

The EMODnet – MedSea Checkpoint serves to assess the quality,extract the synergies between and identify the gaps of, the present monitoring data sets for the entire Mediterranean Sea in view of seven applications or ‘challenges’

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The Challenges and their targeted Products

The Methodologies

THE BASIC ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

Establishment of a metadatabase or CheckPoint information database: a framework for the collection of info related to input data

Definition of objectiveassessment criteriafor the production of‘adequacy’ indicators

Analysis of the fitnessfor use and fitnesspurpose of the inputdatasets with respect tospecific Challengetargeted products

Two ‘Territories’ need to be evaluated in terms of Challenge requirements

Appropriateness: What is made available to the Challenges and what the inherent properties of such data sets are

Availability: How the input data sets are made available to users

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The Service

The Checkpoint service allows the users to search and discover input datasets through different users interfaces

BROWSER DASHBOARD GIS

http://www.emodnet-mediterranean.eu/checkpoint-service/

Facilitates the searchof the checkpointinformation producedby challenges (nonexpert users, Google-like search function )

Presents and evaluatescheckpoint indicatorsautomatically producedfrom the checkpointinformation database

Offers Standard search, discovery and viewing functions of checkpoint info on input datasets - links tocatalogues

The main resultsThe main results achieved today from the point of view of the indicators are:

• Checkpoint service providing a platform of different tools for periodic assessments and allowing users to search and discover the available input datasets. The major assessments so far:

• the majority of the data sets are accessible through an online      delivery service;

• the data policy is partially restricted;• most of the data are free of charge;• the responsiveness in terms of data acquisition is generally high

• A detalied Data Adequacy Report (to be re‐issued at the end)

General expected results:• Identification of gaps and prioritization of the needs• recommendations for future developments to better meet theapplication requirements

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An industrial research project funded by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research, underthe “Piano Operativo Nazionale 2007 – 2013”

The project’s aim: strengthening and consolidating the operational oceanographic services inItaly and in particular in its southern seas. Integrating marine‐weather and ocean forecastsand analyses with advanced technological platforms that will allow an unprecedenteddissemination of environmental information for the "Situational Sea Awareness".

Project partnershipLinks Management and Technology s.p.a. (project leader)

CMCC (Euro‐Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change) S.c.a.r.l.

CNR – IAMC (Istituto per l’Ambiente Marino e Costiero)

Scientific responsible: Prof. Nadia Pinardi Website: http://tessa.linksmt.it

Project timeline: Jan 2012 – May 2015

Obs data

SatelliteIn situ

Data from MFS and Weather

Services of SSA and DSS

Sea Conditions

SAR

VISIR

Sea Level early warning

Marine EnvQuality

Marine Pollution

GenericproductsMed and south of Italy

Up stream information(Copernicus Marine, Med forecast,Meteo-USAM, Observations)

Analysis and Forecasts at high resolution

Information and services customisedfor users’ needs

Maritimetransportoperators

Yachters

Seaside toursists

Offshore industries

Coast Guards

Port Authorities

EnvironmentalProtectionAgencies

Environmentalconsultingcompanies

Authorities fordefence and safety

Ministries

TESSA’ operational chain

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TESSA: the reference architecture

Data production and collection centers

SSA Platform End-user Applications

Map Pipeline

Map Service

Maps

SeaConditions

GIS

DSS

WMTS KVP/REST

TMS

REST

Mobile (Android & iOS)

Web Browser

Channels

TESSA service portfolio: multi‐channel and multi‐device DSS

Weather marine forecasting service for the Mediterranean Sea. MySeaConditions: customized forecast for registered users (favorite places,bulletins, customized notifications)

A service providing optimized nautical routes in the Mediterranean Sea. Theoptimization regards total navigation time, taking into account safety of navigation.The computation of the routes depends on model forecast of sea-state.

A service provided to support maritime authorities and operational centres duringsearch-and-rescue operations. Using OCEAN-SAR to simulate the possibletrajectories of persons or objects lost at sea allows a better prioritisation of thesearch areas and increases the chance of a successful rescue.

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WITOIL (Where Is The Oil) is a service to deliver and disseminate theprediction of the transport and transformation of actual or hypothetical oilspills in the Mediterranean Sea.

MARINENVIRONMENT is a service to provide and display informationon the environmental quality of the Mediterranean Sea.

Nautibox: BoatServer is the module thatinterfaces NEMEA bus instruments and makesdata available to other tools, NautiTab is anAndroid tablet suited for use on sea: high level ofprotection and sealed to external agent, with highvisibility even in bright light

Nautibox

TESSA service portfolio: multi‐channel and multi‐device DSS

SeaConditions: marine weather forecast for the Mediterranean SeaA service providing oceanographic, sea state and weather forecasts for the entire Mediterranean Sea

A multi‐channel and multi‐device service: available on web and mobile

Online since July 2012

SeaConditions web: total No. of users from July 2012: 54.204, SeaConditions mobile: total no. active downloads (Android and IOS) 33.668

www.sea-conditions.com

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SeaConditions: which data?Oceanographic and sea state forecasts:

sea surface temperaturesurface currentssignificant wave height and directionwave period and directionsea level

Data providersItalian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV)

Copernicus MarineInstitute for Environment Research and Protection (ISPRA)

Italian Meteorological Service Hydrographic Institute of the Italian Navy (IIM)

Weather forecasts:air temperature at 2 mt.mean sea level pressureprecipitationcloud coverwinds at 10 mt.

Sea satellite observations:chlorophyllwater transparency

Bathymetry, awash rocks

SeaConditions: the main features

Forecast on Google maps: forecast browsing, drag, zoom, maps and trend

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SeaConditions:  dissemination activities

Market search, surveys, stakeholders meetings

Participation to the 52°Genoa Boat Show, Maritime days 2014, Fiera del Levante 2014,Interspill 2015, maritime days 2015, Ocean2015 (Genova)

Supporting of the Mediterranea expedition

Support to free diving championship

Forecasting scenarios for supporting“Splash” boat, which won the 2013 editionof the Coppa Magna Grecia race, Rimini‐Corfu 2015, Brindisi‐Corfu 2015

Thank you!