MarCoast targets to deliver a portfolio of marine and coastal services on the European scale. This project was acquired by the purposes of:
Inclusion:
Obviously, MarCoast does not aim at developing new elementary chains of service but will start from them, accordingly, a particular effort should be made to have an integrative approach: Usually, the cross-cutting activities will support inclusion in this work, both the user level (sphere of needs and demand, communication efforts to promote the benefits of such a service) and the technical level (standardization, data recovery and cost policies, etc.);
Maintenance:
This is one of the main goals of the project the GSE Stage 2: ensure that all activities conducted within the project will target long-term goals. This is closely connected with the above mentioned items, and for that, the cross-cutting activities of the utmost importance. One of the challenges of MarCoast, that should not be viewed as a one-shot project, should be to ensure that most (if not all) activities are carried out in light of maintenance.
MarCoast proposes a set of six core services, that:
Oil spill surveillance and customized information
Assessment of oil spill drift
Water quality monitoring and alert
Hab monitoring, development and evaluation
Service water quality analysis
Met-Ocean Data
The main objectives are:
Demonstrate progress towards long-term maintenance services for GMES oil pollution and water quality sector
Deliver services and benefits to users on progressively larger scales
Establish a strong, open, distributed GMES Service Provision Network
Establish standards and working practices for GMES Services in the area of ??oil pollution and water quality
Project will ensure that these goals by:
A powerful consortium of 32 partners with comprehensive experience of cooperating in the previous GMES projects
Uses effective focus based on a user’s purpose driven and Service Level Agreements that guarantee performance and quality of information delivered
Well defined links to the projects that provide complementary data support, systems, algorithms, models and information verification and certification backed up by a truly open collaboration agreement within the agreement.