Description
SIMOcean will contribute to improve the National marine management, monitoring and vigilance capabilities by aggregating different observational, satellite and model ocean and other datasets related to marine environment monitoring, associated human activities and their social, environmental and economic impact, currently managed by the IPMA and the Hidrográfico, the main Portuguese data producers/providers of oceanic data. Those datasets will be integrated in SIMOcean to provide value added services for sea state prediction and monitoring, in particular, related to sea wave propagation, ocean circulation dynamics and atmosphere/ocean interaction processes. SIMOcean will include specific human activities datasets related to those scenarios, integrated with marine environment monitoring variables. It will also provide enhanced tools for the generation of value added products for those operational scenarios, namely to compare and validate current ocean state variable models; eliminate ambiguities in remote sensing data; and provide several sources of observed and modeled sea-state data to the end-user in a comparable and intuitive manner.
Summary of project results
Portugal is the country with the largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the European Union, rendering the existence of an integrated management of Portuguese marine system is crucial to monitor a wide range of interdependent domains. A system like this assimilates data from different thematic areas, ranging from ocean and atmosphere state variables to higher level datasets describing human activities and related environmental, social and economic impacts. Currently, these datasets are collected by a wide number of public and private institutions with very diverse purposes (e.g., monitoring, research, recreation, vigilance) leading to dataset duplication, non existence of common data and metadata standards across organizations, and the propagation of closed information systems with different implementation solutions. This lack of coordination and visibility make it difficult to access, or even be aware of, the existence of certain datasets, but also by decrease the ability to create added value products or services through dataset integration from different sources. The adoption of Open Data principles and guidelines will bring significant benefits by reducing the cost of information exchange and data integration, promoting it’s extensive use. SIMOcean contributes to improve the National marine management, monitoring and vigilance capabilities by aggregating different observational, satellite and model ocean and other datasets related to marine environment monitoring, associated human activities and their social, environmental and economic impact, currently managed by the IPMA and the IH, the main Portuguese data producers/providers of oceanic data. Those datasets will be integrated in SIMOcean to provide value added services for sea state prediction and monitoring, in particular, related to sea wave propagation, ocean circulation dynamics and atmosphere/ocean interaction processes. It will include specific human activities datasets related to those scenarios, integrated with marine environment monitoring variables. It will also provide enhanced tools for the generation of value added products for those operational scenarios, namely to compare and validate current ocean state variable models; eliminate ambiguities in remote sensing data; and provide several sources of observed and modeled sea-state data to the end-user in a comparable and intuitive manner.
Summary of bilateral results