A spill that appears at night, an object adrift, a maneuvering window in port: these are decisions against the clock, and European ocean services already feed them with operational data.
CleanSeaNet: >3,000 satellite images per year · operational since 2007
Four applications on mature European services, each with its access conditions: some data is open and directly usable, and some services are institutional, where the path is to work for the agency that receives them.
CleanSeaNet (EMSA) detects possible oil spills and vessels with SAR radar, day and night, regardless of clouds, and alerts coastal states in near real time. It is a service for administrations: our role is to integrate it, or to build in-house detection on Sentinel-1.
>3,000 images/year · since 2007
Lagrangian models fed with Copernicus Marine currents predict the paths of objects, people, and pollutants. CLS operates a drift scenario interface for search and rescue and pollution response.
global currents at 1/12°
Physics, waves, and biogeochemistry for the Mediterranean and the Iberian Atlantic (IBI products), with ten-day forecasts: routes, fuel use, and maneuvering windows in port.
10-day forecasts
THETIS-MRV, the European record of ship CO₂ emissions, is public and downloadable: it enables fleet benchmarking under the emissions trading scheme.
THETIS-MRV: public download
Spain's general interest ports move more than 540 million metric tons a year, and every operation goes through a maneuvering window: sea state decides when ships enter, load, and leave.
For a port authority, a rescue service, or a fleet, the value is the alert that arrives in time, and the drift scenario that organizes the response. That is what we integrate into your system, starting with one solution already defined, and with the neighboring sector:
Sentinel-1 carries a radar (a SAR, which makes its own illumination and works at night and under any sky) that returns an image of the sea where ships stand out as bright dots and an oil patch shows up as an unusually smooth area. The system processes each pass, marks the detections, and cross-checks them against the ships' AIS signals. The result is an alert of what is on your water and what does not fit.
Sentinel-1 · SAR radar day and night · automatic detection
Copernicus Marine publishes ten-day forecasts of waves, currents, and wind for the Mediterranean and the Iberian Atlantic. The system translates that forecast into the wave height and current your operation can handle at each point, and marks the green hours on the calendar. You know in advance when there is a maneuvering window and when it is better to wait.
Copernicus Marine · waves and currents · 10-day forecast
When something goes into the water (a person, a buoy, a slick), what sets its course is the currents and wind of the next few hours. The system starts from the last known point and simulates thousands of possible paths with Copernicus Marine currents, drawing the most likely search area. The response concentrates where it truly is, instead of combing the whole sea.
global currents at 1/12° · drift scenarios
Radar detection over the sea, day and night, with every scene identified.
Temperature, chlorophyll, and site selection: the same ocean, on the productive side.
From ocean data to a response protocol, integrated into your operation.
Tell us your area of operation. We will tell you which European services you can integrate, what each one detects, and which alerts you would receive.
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