Satellite event: Application of Earth Observation Tools in marine protected areas and Ocean and Costal Parks

The Conference objective is to Build Capacity and generate knowledge of marine data in Small Island  Developing States, to improve marine EO data knowledge and provision for African countries, increase the  access to those data and to exchange knowledge of the value and application of the data. This will be done by adding in the network Universities and Startups from LDC, SIDS and African Landlocked Developing countries. 

The tools that will be used include: chlorophyll-a (an estimate of phytoplankton standing stock) and radiances  (from the European MERIS sensor and the US Aqua MODIS sensor) and sea-surface temperature (SST) data (from various European and US satellites). In addition, coastal altimetry data should be supplied from NERC as  developed in the AltiCoRe project. These three data types are particularly valuable for medium resolution coastal and marine monitoring. Access to near-real time data has a number of scientific and environmental monitoring applications and those application will be included in the presentations of the Conference The conference official language: English, French and Portuguese and Spanish.