MARCOSIO SERVICES
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and Africa MarCOSIO project will provide new co-designed decision-making services to promote sustainable management of marine resources, improve marine governance and stimulate the growth of the blue economy in the South and East African Regions.
PARTNERS OF
MarCOSIO
FISHERIES AND
AQUACULTURE
SERVICE
FISHERIES SUPPORT
Provides fishers in different sectors and regulators with the tools to optimise fishing effort, improve safety at sea, better understand environmental variability, and monitor Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fisheries and fishing effort. There will be a particular focus on supporting small scale fishing communities through the ABALOBI partnership.
AQUACULTURE SUPPORT
Provides users with the capability to monitor historical and current harmful algal bloom events along the coastline of Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Reunion Islands. Decision makers will have the ability to be notified of red-tide occurrences and the ability to predict rock lobster walkouts.
MARINE AND
MARITIME
SERVICE
SHIP TRAFFIC MONITORING
Provides authorised users with the capability to monitor vessels near the southern African coastline in near real time, and also view historical vessel tracks and vessel specific information. Decision makers will have the ability to monitor co-operative vessels within their area of responsibility and also to derive strategic information on non-co-operative vessels.
SAFETY AT SEA
Provides users with the capability to monitor and predict ocean and sea state variables such as wind, currents and waves. Sea search and rescue organisations can make use of this service to assist with the planning of sea search and rescue operations.
COASTAL
MONITORING
SERVICE
COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS
Provides decision makers, managers and ministries of environment and fisheries with an accurate mapping of coastal ecosystems as well as the monitoring of their changes, be it seasonal or anthropogenic. The aim is to provide decision makers with a sound understanding of the coastal ecosystem to facilitate the establishment of best practices and sustainable development of the coastal and marine natural resources and land use.
CORAL BLEACHING MONITORING
Provides users with the capability to monitor coral reef bleaching occurrences by building new services based on Copernicus products to detect thermal stress. The service will provide the ability to assess historical and real time bleaching alerts, and will provide additional ability to assess other sources of coral stress such as sand mining.
