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MOnitoring ozone injury for seTTing new critical LEvelS (LIFE MOTTLES)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

Background Climate change and air pollution are interlinked, representing a challenge for the management of European forests, with ozone (O3) being the most phytotoxic air pollutant for trees. European standards for the protection of ecosystems, including forests, have been defined through experiments carried out under controlled conditions. Yet, resear ...
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Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (AtlantOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

The overarching objective of AtlantOS is to achieve a transition from a loosely-coordinated set of existing ocean observing activities to a sustainable, efficient, and fit-for-purpose Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System (IAOOS), by defining requirements and systems design, improving the readiness of observing networks and data systems, and engaging stakeholders around the Atlantic; and leav ...
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Coastal Waters Research Synergy Framework (Co-ReSyF)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The Co-ReSyF project will implement a dedicated data access and processing infrastructure, with automated tools, methods and standards to support research applications using Earth Observation (EO) data for monitoring of Coastal Waters, leveraging on the components deployed SenSyF. The main objective is to facilitate the access to Earth Observation data and pre-processing tools to the research comm ...
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Operational Network of Individual Observation Nodes (ONION)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Two trends have recently emerged in space systems and could even further strengthen in the future: small satellites, with the development of key modularisation and miniaturisation technologies, and the deployment of constellations and distributed networks of satellites. It is of primordial importance for Europe to properly analyse those trends and determine whether or not they could provide a comp ...
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CLIL step by step

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

For quite some time now, European and Italian schools have started to explore the possibility to integrate the various curricular subjects in a foreign language through the CLIL’s experimentation. This work has been done with the awareness that this kind of ability will be precious for our students who will live in a global village created by modern informatics technology. As future European cit ...
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Support to Aquaculture and Fishery Industry (SAFI)

Start date: Sep 5, 2013, End date: Oct 1, 2016,

The objective of SAFI project is to exploit Earth Observation resources to support fishery and aquaculture industries in marine coastal regions. The service, based on additive value brought by a network of SMEs, is adapted to each category of targeted users, and aims to realize the following points by making the best use of emerging EO products:1-Develop a service to assist aquaculture deployment ...
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Euro-Argo Improvements for the GMES Marine Service (E-AIMS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"Argo is an international array of 3000 profiling floats that measure temperature and salinity throughout the deep global oceans, down to 2,000 metres. It is the single most important global in-situ observing system for the GMES Marine Service. Argo provides critical observations of the ocean interior that are required to constrain, together with satellite observations, GMES Marine Service modelli ...
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Sentinels Synergy Framework (SenSyF)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The SenSyF project proposes a complete system for fully automated data acquisition and processing. This project will allow for the development and testing of new processing chains and methods for Sentinel and GMES contributing mission data on a continuous basis, and the delivery of higher-level products and services complementing the information provided by the (pre-)operational services.This syst ...
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Pre-Operational Marine Service Continuity in Transition towards Copernicus (MyOcean FO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015,

The main objective of the MyOcean Follow On project will be to operate a rigorous, robust and sustainable Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting component of the pre-operational Copernicus Marine Service delivering ocean physical state and ecosystem information to intermediate and downstream users in the areas of marine safety, marine resources, marine and coastal environment and weather, climate and s ...
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Ozone and Climate Change Impacts on French and Italian Forests: Refinement of criteria and thresholds for forest protection (FO3REST)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Background Ozone (O3) is a secondary pollutant produced during the atmospheric photo-oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which also acts as a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) in the troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere). As mean temperature and global radiation rise, so does the level of tropospheric ozone. Recent studies have shown an ...
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Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Indicators for North Africa (MEDINA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

MEDINA is designed to enhance Northern African Countries’s monitoring capacity of their coastal areas ecosystems, including fish stocks resources, and consequently their capacity to implement environmental policies, conventions and protocols. In response to this Call for proposal and supported by a strong European partnership, MEDINA focuses on the Mediterranean coasts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ...
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Ocean Strategic Services beyond 2015 (OSS2015)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

"The first level of GMES applications in the marine area is mostly represented by the ""upstream"" services of the MCS (e.g. MyOcean). Unfortunately, the current MyOcean offering of products and services for biogeochemistry has limitations that prevent a full uptake by the potential users. The present project proposes to address these issues through a range of R&D activities designed to offer a se ...
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Prototype Operational Continuity for the GMES Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Service (MYOCEAN2)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The main objective of the MyOcean2 project will be to operate a rigorous, robust and sustainable Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting component of the GMES Marine Service (OMF/GMS) delivering ocean physical state and ecosystem information to intermediate and downstream users in the areas of marine safety, marine resources, marine and coastal environment and climate, seasonal and weather forecasting.Th ...
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Multisensor Satellite Technologies for Oil Pollution Monitoring and Source Identification (SeaU)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

The use of satellite radar data to detect oil at sea started in the early 90-ties. A first generation service has been developed through activities like research and development, demonstrations, trials and end user feedback. The improvement of the service has been on-going under the support of national and European (ESA, EC) R&D programs. Up till 2005, the oil spill detection activities were stro ...
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People for Ecosystem Based Governance in Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and Coast (PEGASO)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

"Many efforts have been deployed for developing Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Both basins have, and continue to suffer severe environmental degradation. In many areas this has led to unsustainable trends, which have impacted, on economic activities and human well-being. An important progress has been made with the launch of the ICZM Protocol for ...
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Promote Air Quality Services integrating Observations – Development Of Basic Localised Information for Europe (PASODOBLE)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"Air quality is a crucial environmental factor, e.g. evidenced by the fact that particles in the air are estimated to reduce the lifetime of the average European citizen by 8 months. Assessing and monitoring air quality are thus fundamental to improve Europe’s welfare. PASODOBLE will develop and demonstrate user-driven downstream information services for the public, regional and local air quality ...
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Marine Water Quality Information Services – AquaMar (AQUAMAR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"Water quality (WQ) is a focus of monitoring agencies and the public, and it is 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, demanded by end user. The team is composed mainly of SMEs (70%) supported by key scientific partners. The objective is to create a refe ...
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Development and pre-operational validation of upgraded GMES Marine Core Services and capabilities (MyOcean)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

MyOcean is THE PROJECT to set up infrastructures, services and resources to prepare the operational deployment of first Marine Core Services. My Ocean answers to the topic SPA.2007.1.1.01 - development of upgraded capabilities for existing GMES fast-track services and related (pre)operational services. MyOcean is proposed by a consortium of 67 partners spread in maritime countries: - federated aro ...
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GENeric European Sustainable Information Space for Environment (GENESIS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

The GENESIS Project has the objective of providing Environment management and Health actors with an innovative solution based on advanced ICT. Relying on interoperability standards and harmonization process, GENESIS helps to constitute complex information networks, by combining benefits of various information systems with a collaborative systems approach. The proposed generic solution allows easy ...
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Scenarios for hazard emergencies management (SCHEMA)

Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

A consortium of 11 organisations proposes a research project involving international cooperation: they aim at using earth observation data to develop a generic methodology able to help experts build vulnerability and hazard impact maps associated with tsunamis. Involving Morocco and Bulgaria, GEOSCIENCES will coordinate the design and development of this vulnerability map creation technique which ...
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