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BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
BlueBRIDGE: supporting maritime spatial planning through provision of data and analysis
Miles Macmillan-LawlerGRID-ArendalPartners: FAO, GRID-Arendal, CLS, Engineering
The context
Maritime Spatial PlanningCompetition for maritime space – for renewable energy equipment, aquaculture and other growth areas – has
highlighted the need for efficient management, to avoid potential conflict and create synergies between different activities
EU Maritime Spatial Planning
By 2020 […] 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem
services, are protected […]CBD Aichi target 11
"Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-Infrastructures can boost Blue Growth", 11 January 2017, Brussels
The challengesMaritime spatial planning requires information on the location of activities and how these relate to the environment and management measures to inform decision makingKey challenges include:• Incomplete or non-existent information on the location of
human uses (e.g. aquaculture facilities)• Information on human uses, management and environment
not easily accessible (in one place)• Time consuming to collate and analyse the relationships
between human uses, management and environment
"Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-Infrastructures can boost Blue Growth", 11 January 2017, Brussels
The challengesTwo key challenges being addressed by the BlueBRIDGE project
Develop rapid inventories ofAquaculture facilities
Develop tools to assess featuresin marine managed areas
(e.g. MPAs)
"Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-Infrastructures can boost Blue Growth", 11 January 2017, Brussels
The BlueBRIDGE solutions: Aquaculture
Where are all the aquaculture cages in Greece?Earth observation imagery to derive aquaculture cage locations
BlueBRIDGE workshop, 11 January 2017, Brussels, Belgium
The BlueBRIDGE solutions: Aquaculture
Where are all the aquaculture cages in Greece?431 farms in FAO database (309 excluding hatchery and non-cage farms)253 assessed by tool8699 fish cages for a total of 1 931 043 m²56 ‘missing farms’:
• 22 due to image availability (no high resolution available image from Bing WMS)
• Some with clouds• Some due to merging
"Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-Infrastructures can boost Blue Growth", 11 January 2017, Brussels
The BlueBRIDGE solutions: Protected Areas
What is protected in the Bahamas protected area network?Marine protected areas (Protected Planet)Exclusive economic zones (Marine Regions), Ecoregions (MEOW/PPOW) Seagrass, mangroves and coral reefs (WCMC), seafloor geomorphology (GRIDA)
The BlueBRIDGE solutions: Protected Areas
What is protected in the Bahamas protected area network?
• 4.1 per cent of coral reefs represented in MPAs• Deep sea features such as seamounts and canyons are
currently not represented in MPAs• This information can be used to prioritise the location of future
MPAs to fully achieve committments under CBD Aichi target 11
The BlueBRIDGE benefits• Collation and access to relevant data and metadata• Rapid processing time - seconds and minutes instead of hours
and days!• Repeatability and comparability of processing• Standardised reporting tools• Infrastructure can be accessed by external projects (e.g. JRC
BIOPAMA Project)
"Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-Infrastructures can boost Blue Growth", 11 January 2017, Brussels
Next stepsAquaculture pond detection
IndonesiaMangrove detection
Indonesia
Integrate regional datasetsEurope/Caribbean
User data into protected area algorithmMPAs / ecological features
ImpactAquaculture AtlasWith little overhead, countries can identify the location of aquaculture facilities to feed into management and MSP
Protected AreasCountries can report on their protected area networks to determine how well they are representing a standard range of ecologically relevant features (Aichi target 11)
"Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-Infrastructures can boost Blue Growth", 11 January 2017, Brussels
Thank YouQuestions?