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Marine Water Quality Information ServicesAQUAMAR

FP7-SPACE-2009-1 / Collaborative project N° 241759

MyOcean User Workshop / CUG meeting,

April 7-8, 2011, Stockholm

Stéphane Pierotti, Thales Alenia Space FranceMUMM

AquaMar MyOcean User Workshop – 2nd CUG, 7-8 April 2011 Copyright © 2011 Aquamar. All Rights Reserved

AquaMar versus recommendations from 1st CUG

Recommendations addressed by AquaMar

R1 The downstream GMES projects (AQUAMAR, FIELD_AC) will have this role ofdownscaling the service to coastal areas and providing additional relevant products…

Development of 5 experimental services in AquaMar, in complement to the(pre)operational MarCoast services

R2 The perspective of an operational service that will provide easy access to a series ofinformation products related to the state of the marine environment is welcomed by theuser’s community.

Development of a WQ Information System including (service/product catalogue, web-based service validation process, interface with MyOcean catalogue and validation tools,user feedback features…)

R3 MyOcean products should be accompanied with quality indicators. There is a need forproducts validated through well documented procedures and if possible with uncertaintiesestimates.

Definition and implementation of Validation process supervised by a Validation Bureau(AVB), supported by the AquaMar Information system and Validation tools


Aquamar services lines

Indicators for the reporting requirement of the Water Framework Directive andthe European Marine Strategy

The products derived from Earth Observation are that the product quality is not sufficient inthe near coastal zone, which is concerned by the WFD, namely 1nautical mile. Further, thebasic product, Chl-a, is one contribution to the quality index required by the WFD, but itwould be desirable to get products which are closer to the reporting requirements. Based onthis, the objectives of this work package are to get:

(1) better ocean colour products in the WFD coastal area, i.e. 1nm off the coastalbaseline:

(2) one step closer to WFD indicators as compared to chlorophyll-a, improved P90

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1st CUG R1



Detection of harmful algal blooms (HAB)

The present (H)AB detection services that exist through Europe are based on daily satellite-derived chlorophyll a imagery, possibly supplemented with information from in situmeasurements.. These (H)AB detection and forecasting services are limited by the lack ofinformation on species/harmfulness, on low biomass harmful species and on below-surfaceinformation that can be extracted from satellite measurements. Model forecasts can givespecies and depth profile information but are limited in reliability. In situ measurements givea very sparse coverage of any region.

AquaMar proposes to improve existing (H)AB detection and forecasting services bydeveloping methods to supplement satellite chlorophyll-based services withspecies/harmfulness information.

MERIS CHL a (11.4.2010)[ACRI-ST]

Algae Bloom detection[MUMM]

Airborne photo7.4.2010 [MUMM]

Phaeocystis globosa?

1st CUG R1



Support to large scale marine infrastructures

New infrastructure projects are continuously under development in the coastal and marine environment.Bridges, off shore wind mill parks, harbours, gas pipelines, artificial beaches, etc. are planned andunavoidably involve risks of environmental impacts. Such risks must be assessed; and design andoperations must be optimised to reduce the impacts to an acceptable level. As a basis for the impactassessment, the baseline conditions have to be clarified. Compliance monitoring shall document theenvironmental state before, during and after construction works and supports planning of construction (e.g.in extreme events stopping dredging operations if selected environmental quality thresholds are exceeded).

Presently, most commonly baseline, impact and compliance monitoring are based on in situ data andhydrodynamic and ecosystem modelling. AquaMar will demonstrate ways to integrate EO derivedinformation in EIAs (environmental impacts assessments) of large scale marine infrastructures (i.e. inevaluations of baseline and effects); as well as in the consecutive monitoring.

Ecological model for forecastingModelling of Chl with flexible mesh up to 10-20m resolution

1st CUG R1



Bathing waters indicators

The water quality for bathing waters is mainly driven by regulation under the terms of the EU Directive2006/7/EC for “bathing water quality” and will require entry into force for “Bathing Water profiles”characterisation in 2012. This directive is to be applied by the appropriated national or regional or even localauthorities of each member states. Today, baseline, impact and compliance monitoring are based on in situdata and there is neither real use of Earth Observation nor use of modelling excepted for punctual impactstudies.

AquaMar will put the focus on 3 applications that are the analysis of the correlation between EO-derivedquantity (CDOM, turbidity, Kd, Secchi depth) and the bacteria concentration in waters, the contribution ofthe Earth Observation and modelling to the derivation of Bathing Water profiles and the estimation ofcyanobacteria concentrations from assimilation of MERIS Full Resolution into an ecological model.

Modelling Data: 3D Oceanic model; Meteorological model;Discharges and bacterial content discharged at outfalls, river

discharges

Extraction of synthetic information for decision-makers

1st CUG R1



Aquaculture precision farming

Water temperature, water transparency, oxygen and phytoplankton abundance(amongothers) are key environmental parameters related to well being of the farmed fish,optimisation of feeding schemes as well as of the impact of the aquaculture on thesurrounding marine environment.

Satellite based data, in situ on site observations and high resolution (nested) modelling andpredictions will be integrated in a web-based information system for management of thefarm site location.

MERIS Full Resolution algorithms will be developed and adapted for local scale assessments,assimilation schemes for integration of high resolution dynamic modelling and ocean coloursatellite data, and information systems sampling relevant data (monitoring, remote sensing,modelling) and disseminating operational HAB info.

A flexible web-based distributed GIS solution willallow integration of various on-site available

informationMERIS Fine Resolution data, ESA products (04.09.2010)

1st CUG R1


Needs identified toward MyOcean (1/2)

AquaMar uses

MyOcean products as a direct key input in the services processing chains

From the Ocean Colour TAC

From the Sea Surface Temperature TAC

From the In Situ TAC

MyOcean models outcomes from the MFC as boundary conditions of the Aquamarlocal scale models

1st CUG R1


Needs identified toward MyOcean (2/2)

baseline and standard ocean state productsboundary and initial ocean state conditions

Global.European Basins

daily / hourly fieldsHindcast (H), Nowcast (N), Forecast(F) and Re-analysis (R).

5-25 kmModel

bio-chemical data (Chl-a, Nutrients, O2 )Available mid-2010


Real Time AnalysisRe-Analysis

N/AIn Situ (*)

Temperature and salinity fieldsGlobal.European Basins

Real Time AnalysisRe-Analysis

N/AIn Situ (*)


Daily (NRT). Historical data for 20years.

1-4 kmSST

chlorophyll-a concentration (mg/m3)particulate back-scattering coefficient at 443 nm(m-1)diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (m-1)coloured dissolved and detrital organic materialsabsorption coefficient (m-1).Fully normalised water leaving radiances at xxxnm (mW/cm²/µm/sr) where xxx= 412, 443, 490,510, 531, 550-565, 620, 665-670, 681 and 709nm

Global.Pan European,European Basins

Daily (NRT), weekly, monthly andyearly fields from 1997.

1-4 kmOceanColour

NotesArea coverageTemporal frequency/coverageResolutionProductTheme

1st CUG R1


Products Access and Distribution techniques

Product Access and Distribution techniques

Aquamar will collaborate with MyOcean as a key user of the MCS. An intermediate layerinterfacing with the MyOcean Service desk interface, will be developed by Aquamar toprovide MyOcean products to all Aquamar Service providers in a suitable format and relevantdelivery requirements.

New distribution channels for Earth Observation products will be proposed to new, untappeduser segments, in particular the mass media and the public.

ex. of mobile web application foreseen to distribute Water quality services

1st CUG R2


MyOcean-AquaMar interface – Concepts

Main concepts

The targeted objective of the development of the MyOcean-AquaMar interface is tohave an operational tool which will be the starting point of a delivery service: itsrole shall be to take from MyOcean the data required as input by a serviceprocessing chain, in an automatic and independent way from the Service Provider

This operational tool should be easily adaptable and configurable for fulfilling thevariety of products and metadata needs of the services under R&D in AquaMar

No User Interface should be required

v1 of the interface should not do any pre-processing of the MyOcean products, butsimply will allow to exploit the existing capabilities of MyOcean (e.g. cut over anarea of interest)

Initially v1 and v2 of the interface foreseen, for adaptation to MyOcean V0 and V1.Since only the latter is suitable for automatic products retrieval, v2 will bededicated to implement some improvements and/or tune the interface

1st CUG R2


MyOcean-AquaMar interface – Implementation

The interface tool (v1) consists mainly of two logical layers:

1) Application layer, composed of: Interface to MyOcean Delivery System: the software that provides forwarding download

requests to MyOcean repository (via batch scripts) Job Scheduler: its goal is to schedule the download mechanism to run daily, weekly, and so

on, depending on the products and the partners’ requirements Dispatcher: its goal is to deliver to each partner the required products in the required place

(ftp directory, http repository, etc.)

2) Data Layer, composed of: The products retrieved from MyOcean: they will constitute the “AquaMar-MYO Products

Catalogue” The associations of the products and metadata to be retrieved versus each the AquaMar

Partner (WP3) and the way of delivery

• The interface will be an automatic tool implemented in Java and makes use of aPostgreSQL database. So in its v1 doesn’t require a user interface.

• The v2 of the interface would make use of some administrator/user tools that can beintegrated into the AquaMar IS

1st CUG R2


MyOcean-AquaMar interface – Improvements

Improvements foreseen for the v2 of the MyOcean-AquaMar interface:

1. Use of the MyOcean automatic emailing system for alerting the correspondingservice provider when a product is not available for any reason. This improvementrequires that the emails from MyOcean should follow a pre-defined structure toallow automatic parsing of the email received -> cooperation with MyOcean

2. A Web Console to view in real time the download processes status and to allow toan administrator to change the job scheduler behavior e.g. in case of aborteddownloads

3. Implementation of CS-W ISO functionalities: to query MyOcean catalogue forobtaining information on products not already downloaded and that can beretrieved after a coded request from a SP (e.g. products which have a timelinebefore the AquaMar’s system starting point). It would be extremely useful to beable to get not only the metadata of found products, but for example also aphysical link to get the product -> cooperation with MyOcean (question sent)

4. Front-end interface for service providers: a user-friendly way to update thecorresponding information in the interface database (e.g. partners/productsassociation, products parameters, etc)

1st CUG R2


Services and products Quality evolution

Basic validation concept

1st CUG R3

Initial service

Validation report

Improved Service

Service validation

Suggestionsforimprovements

Service validation

Implementation of the concept

Validation of the newly developed products and services, as well as service delivery is ofcritical importance for the acceptance of the services by the users and hence the basis for asustainable business.

Experimentations with users and service providers will be supported by the AquaMarinformation system integrating components developed within the project, such as users accessmanagement, services cataloguing, validation reports workflow, etc.


Aquamar validation process

Main objectives

1. To enable a comprehensive and transparent assessment of Aquamarservices with special emphasis to user requirements,

2. to determine possibilities to improve the quality of services and products and

3. to enable an objective comparison of services providing similar products.

In order to organize and steer the validation process for Aquamar services a

dedicated Aquamar Validation Bureau (AVB) has been set up.


Aquamar Validation Bureau (AVB)

Role of the Validation Bureau (BC, DHI, MUMM, SYKE):

1. Definition of quality criteria for Aquamar services

2. Definition of a validation concept for AquaMar (1) novelalgorithms and (2) the resulting products and services,driven by user requirements

3. Definition of a quality improvement concept for AquaMar

4. Implementation of a process realizing the validationconcept

5. Continuous improvement of the validation and qualityimprovement concept by regularly reviewing theachievements, gathering feedback from users, researchpartners and service providers.

6. Summarizing the outcomes of the validation process.

„Validation protocoland qualityevolution document“and „Validationprocess definitiondocument“

Ongoing activityduring projectlifetime

1st CUG R3


Validation process definition 1st CUG R3


More about AquaMar…


Introduction to AquaMar

AquaMar - Marine Water Quality Information Services

FP7-SPACE-2009-1 / Collaborative project N° 241759

Project submitted in December 2008 / Work program: “Stimulating thedevelopment of downstream GMES services”

16 partners

Duration: 36 months

Total project cost: 4 875 K€, Grant: 3 499 K€

Project start: 1st April 2010

EC Project Officer: Paola Chiarini (REA)

Project Coordinator: Stéphane Pierotti (TASF)


Project objectives

Build a reference technical body at European scale for water quality services,service quality management and services validation.

Address EU policy directives and international conventions and support users likethe European and national monitoring agencies, industries operating in coastalwaters support. EC WFD directive (2000) -

Marine Strategy Directive - (EMS) (2008) .

EC Bathing waters directive (2006)

EIA - Environment Impact Assessment Directive (1985, amended in 1997) :

The EU ICZM Recommendations (2002)

Regional Seas conventions:Helsinki (Baltic Sea); Oslo and Paris (NE Atlantic) , Barcelona(Med. Sea)

Go beyond the state of the art with improved products and novel services, toaddress new markets and to develop a legal and economic framework for anopen partnership of service providers.

Develop and provide downstream services built on Marine Core Service (MCS) andother relevant data products, expected by end-users


Scientific & Technical objectives

1. R&D activity to support novel downstream servicessupport novel downstream services: Indicators for the reporting requirement of the Water Framework Directive and the

European Marine Strategy Algal bloom forecasting Support to large scale marine infrastructure Services supporting the Bathing Water directive monitoring Aquaculture precision farming

2. Build a sustained technical collaboration with the MCSsustained technical collaboration with the MCS for end-to-end services,validation and quality optimisation

3.3. Federate the User communityFederate the User community at large4. Propose, agree and implement a service quality validation processservice quality validation process5. Propose, agree and implement a process to harmonize service quality evolutionprocess to harmonize service quality evolution6. Disseminate best practices to the service provider’s community at large

R&D results on information products Service validation process Service quality evolution process

7. Demonstrate impact of the proposed actions on the sustainability of the servicenetwork at European scale


Activities proposed

Scientific development of new methods forinnovative products: Scientific/technical descriptions of new algorithms,

products & services, including the definition of the MCSinterface, tools and techniques

Preparation to service sustainability, evolution and newsensors

Development & provision of a Service portfolioincluding 5 novel products lines

Technical implementation & validation Definition of the Validation & Quality process &

procedures

Architecture design and implementation of theinformation system to provide a unified access to:Validation & Quality process data model; downstreamservice portfolio; MCS interface tools

Experimentation with end-users

Dissemination, exploitation and AquaMar Servicesnetwork expansion Preparation of the future of AquaMar services (business

model, marketing, data policy, training)

Increase of the service portfolio


Who are the users of AquaMar?

Cluster “Pôle Mer PACA”

End-users involved in the project

A Users and Customers Executive Board (UCEB) composed by committed end-users will provide anoverall assessment of the expected value and impact of the service portfolio on their specificobligations, activities, and business context and development.

End-users served by the GSE MarCoast 2 project

End-users will benefit from Aquamar results through the MarCoast services provision

European citizen

On all European beaches, the blue flag that signals good quality of bathing water comforts families.Securing water quality is a key European priority. Beyond health benefits, Aquamar will also bringeconomical added value (e.g. aquaculture, infrastructure impact at coast).

Aquamar UECB


3. Service and product description

General characteristics

Spatial extent

Parameters


3. Service processing / Failure modes

Data flow diagram Failure mode and risk ranking


3. Validation of geophysical services

Water quality Services, which provide quantitative measures, such aschlorophyll, temperature, transparency or turbidity. These productsgenerally can be validated by matchups with insitu data (daily – weekly)using regression and correlation analysis as well as xy-transect or timeseries plots.

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3. Validation of classification services

Services, which provide classifications, e. g. Water Framework Directiveeutrophication categorization, algal bloom risk indicator maps or habitatindicator maps.

Results will be compared with independent data using contingency tables.


Cooperation with other projects and initiatives

On-going projects

New services lines and improved validation techniques will be taken up by MARCOAST (GSE)GMES project, a key activity on water quality services, derived from space borne oceancolour radiometry measurements, in Europe using a large scale provision of Marine CoreServices (MCS) through MyOcean (FP7) project, and of coastal service through Coastcolour.

Access to satellite data

Aquamar will benefit from the GMES Space Component Data Access (GSC-DA) project in theframe of the FP7 space programme as part of the European Space Policy focusing oncoordinating the access to space-based observation data to support GMES services.


Further information at:

http://www.aquamar-fp7.eu

This project has received EC research funding

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