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Applications and Projects: Coastal Waters

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.

ProGIRH-DLR (02/2022 – 07/2024)

Peru is amongst the most affected countries by climate change in the world, with severe consequences on the availability of water across the country. The GIZ funded project "Multisectoral management of water resources in the Mantaro River basin" (ProGIRH) aims to improve the integrated and climate-sensitive water resource management in the Mantaro River basin.

APEXES (04/2022 – 03/2027)

Navigation in ice covered waters is challenging. Driven by both wind and currents, the sea ice situation can change dramatically within hours. For example, navigable open water channels can close as the sea ice converges. If the pressure persists, ice floes are forced on top of each other, forming dense ridges. Such sea ice is then hard to cross, even for icebreakers.

EisKlass2 (06/2020 – 05/2023)

Meereis unterliegt ständigen Veränderungen: Wind und Meeresströmung können große Eismassen zusammenschieben und offene Wasserbereiche schließen; so gebildetes Packeis ist selbst für Eisbrecher teils unpassierbar. Die europäische Sentinel-Satelliten-serie bietet mit ihrer einmaligen Kombination aus optischen/ther-malen Sensoren und Radarsensoren die Möglichkeit, die Meereis-Lageinformationen erheblich zu verbessern.

AquaMar (04/2010 - 04/2013)

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.

MyOcean (01/2009-04/2012)

MyOcean aims at defining and setting up a concerted and integrated pan-European capacity for ocean monitoring and forecasting.
MyOcean is the next step toward the operational GMES marine service after many marine-related projects funded by European institutions such as POLAR VIEW, ECOOP, MARCOAST, MERSEA, ...
DLR is supporting German entities involved in MyOcean thru its participation in National Projects such as DeMarine

DeMarine Environment (02/2008 - 01/2011)

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.
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.

DeMarine Safety (02/2008 - 01/2011)

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.
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.

MARISS (2008-2011)

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.

MARCOAST (11/2005 - 11/2008)

11/2005 - 11/2008
Marine & Coastal Environmental Information Services
As part of MarCoast, routine services to monitor the maritime environment in all European waters are being provided. The consortium includes some 40 partners and is led by Alcatel Alenia Space of France. Users are the European Commission (specifically the European Environmental Agency EEA) and various institutions in all European coastal countries. The purpose of the service is to support the monitoring of maritime environmental conventions such as OSPAR and HELCOM.
Services cover the following main areas: oil pollution detection, monitoring and drift forecasting; monitoring and assessing water quality; and detecting and predicting the spreading of algal blooms.
German participants other than DLR are Brockmann Consult and the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH)