Development of Services for Marine Environmental Observation and Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Data

Abstract

By the national DeMARINE projects the German contribution to GMES shall be strengthened in the areas of marine environment (DeMARINE-Environment) and maritime safety and security (DeMarine-Security). Moreover, the development of services, which fulfill the requirements of the German users in an optimal way, shall be supported. The DeMarine-Environment research initiative, funded by the Federal Ministry of Econimics and technology through the German Aerospace Center (DLR), has been launched in early 2008 with the prupose to respresent the users' interests at a national and European level. The investigations hereby focus on the (further) development of services for marine enrironmental observation and monitoring, particularly in the areas of water quality, oil pollution and drift forecast, as well as Wadden Sea Monitoring. A further emphasis of the projects ist the development and implementation of a technique for the assimilation of remotely sensed data in a numerical forecast model.