Marine and Coastal Information Services Extension and Transfer (MarCoast, GMES)
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Basic project information
Person in charge
Timo Pyhälahti
Other persons
Alasalmi Hanna (SYKE), Anttila Saku (SYKE), Kervinen Mikko (SYKE), Kaitala Seppo (SYKE)
Financiers
ESA (European Space Agency), EU FP7 (demonstration and research project via AquaMar)
Partners
Thales Alenia Space (France), Planetek (Italy), ACRI-ST (France), Brockmann Consult (Germany); SYKE, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), DHI (Denmark)
Strategic goals of the project
MarCoast targets to deliver a portfolio of marine and coastal services at the European scale. The Prime of Marcoast is Alcatel Alenia Space, France. Partners in Finland are SYKE, Finnish Institute of Marine Research and Helsinki University of Technology – Department of Radio Science and Engineering. This project will continue to 2013.
Strategic results of the project
SYKE produces within MarCoast sea surface temperature (STT), chlorophyll-a and turbidity during May to September.
Invocation of the results, impressiveness
The products can be found on www-pages:
SYKE has also surface floating algae bloom intensity product during July to August:
Publications and reports
Further information
Senior expert Timo Pyhälahti, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), firstname.lastname@ymparisto.fi or from the remote sensing group:
(syke_rs_oper): group@ymparisto.fi [group= syke_rs_oper]