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Applications and Projects: Water Bodies

During the last few years in the field of the Marine Remote Sensing there have been developed prototype processors which routinely make available various data products based on satellite data for monitoring the marine environment and ship traffic. This work builds on the research on inversion methodologies and evaluation algorithms. The prototypes are readied for operational use in cooperation with the German Remote Sensing Data Center DFD, specifically its national ground station in Neustrelitz, and various outside partners which also include small and medium size companies. The information products and services made available are tailored to user requirements.

MarCoast

Marine and Coastal Environmental Information Services (MarCoast) is a project financed by ESA and led by ThalesAlenia Space (France). It provides services for monitoring the marine environment of all European seas and coastal waters. The MarCoast consortium is composed of about 25 partners; one of them, DLR, provides daily data products for monitoring the Baltic Sea.

AquaMar

Marine Water Quality Services (AquaMar) is a research and development project which began in 2010 and is part of the EU’s 7th Framework Program for Research and Technological Development. It has the goal of improving existing products specifically for Europe’s coastal waters, as well as developing new ones.

MARISS

European Maritime Security Services MARISS is a project financed by ESA for the purpose of establishing consistent and sustainable European maritime safety services to monitor marine borders and shipping. It was developed to meet relevant requirements of European and local users and integrates both earth observation and in-situ data to provide monitoring functions for European coasts and seas. Services also include watching for illegal trade, fishing, and immigration (boat people) in the waters of the European Union.

DeMarine

DeMarine is a German interface project financed by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and complementing other European projects with similar maritime concerns. The focus is on representing German interests in GMES and developing an appropriate national infrastructure toward this end. The project has two parts, which are in turn further subdivided into several subprojects addressing various issues.

DeMarine Safety

DLR heads the DeMarine subproject PaRol, which is concerned with investigating dangerous, unstable ship conditions caused by wind and waves. By providing a component related to ship detection using satellites, DLR also participates in the ShipDetec subproject led by OHB Bremen.

DeMarine Environment

DLR heads the DeMarine subproject “Coastal Water Quality” to develop improved methods and products for the North and Baltic Seas for incorporation in a new generation of data processors.