CoastColour

Improving the uptake of MERIS for coastal water monitoring

The importance of the coastal zone for economic activities, and the anthropogenic stresses on the ecosystem, have been described and discussed widely throughout the past 20 years. Responding to this, ESA designed the MERIS instrument specifically to provide measurements most suitable for coastal zone management and research. In space onboard Envisat since 2002, MERIS has now acquired a unique global data set ideally suited to the study of coastal waters.

Name	CoastColour
Title	Improving the uptake of MERIS for coastal water monitoring
Programme	DUE (Data User Element)
Theme	Land
Cost	€1,500k
Type	Service Demonstration
Status	Completed
Sensors	ENVISAT : MERIS
Web site	http://www.coastcolour.org" target="_blank">http://www.coastcolour.org
Objectives	The CoastColour project aims to improve user uptake of ESA's MERIS mission for applications in coastal waters by developing, demonstrating and validating the latest advanced techniques for retrieving information on water constituents across a range of globally distributed test sites.The objectives of the DUE CoastColour project are: Develop, validate and demonstrate best-practice regional optimisations of MERIS Case 2 retrieval algorithms over a globally distributed set of user defined areas of interest. Investigate the relative merits of MERIS Case 2 ocean-colour algorithms compared to other sources of coastal ocean- colour information, both EO and in-situ. Encourage and assist the scientific community to fully exploit the potential of MERIS data for monitoring coastal waters. Increase user uptake by demonstrating the value of MERIS ocean-colour products for monitoring coastal waters. Product requirements have been derived from a thorough user consultation process, and all data products, documents and related information will be made available online from the CoastColour website.
Results	CoastColour Newsletter 2 (Jan 2011) CoastColour Newsletter 1 (July 2010) CoastColour Newsletter 3 (July 2011) CoastColour Newsletter 4 (December 2011) Final Report
Prime contractor	Brockmann Consult Gmbh, Germany
Subcontractors	GKSS PML MUMM CO FCUL LISE Adrinord
Users	UNICAN UCC TechWorks SYKE SU ROFFS PML NUIM and DCU NOAA NIOF NASA MSU MSI, Tallinn MRI, Iceland MRI LOICZ KORDI JAXA ITC ISAC CNR Irish Marine Institute INRH IMST, Turkey Ifremer ICMAN ICESS HCMR GRAS GKSS EPA EOMAP EMI EEA DMI DFO CSIRO CSIR CEFAS CarICOOS BIO Scripps
Project Manager	Carsten Brockmann Brockmann Consult Max-Planck-Str. 2 21502 Geesthacht, Germany Tel: +49 4152 889300 Fax: +49 4152 889333 E-Mail: info@brockmann-consult.de
Technical Officer	Simon Pinnock European Space Agency (ESRIN) Via Galileo Galilei, Casella Postale 64, 00044 Frascati (RM), Italia Tel: 0039 06 941 80573 Fax: 0039 06 941 80552 Email: Simon.Pinnock@esa.int