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Introduction to

Splinter Session:

Maritime Safety

MyOcean User Forum

7 April 2011, Stockholm

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Agenda and panel

Presenter Title Time

Anne Marie Hayes EMSAIntroduction to Maritime Safety splinter 14:00-14:15

Nadia Pinardi INGV Co-chair

Alain Podaire Mercator Rapporteur

User Testimonies 14:15-15:30

George Zodiatis U. CyprusThe use of MyOcean products in the CYCOFOS-LEV Decision Support System

Bruce Hackett met.noMyOcean and Maritime Safety Services at met.no: Requirements and Experience

Alberto RibottiCNR Marine Safety in the Western and Central Mediterranean Sea

Ari SeinaFMI User requirements for sea ice products

Uldis BethersU. Latvia

Break 15:30-16:00

AllDiscussion on the MyOcean Service

16:00-17:30

Summary & Conclusions17:30-18:00

End of Session18:00

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European Maritime Safety Agency - origin

EMSA established: 2002

Post Erika: ERIKA I, II package

Legal basis: Regulation 1406/2002

EMSA extended: 2004

Post Prestige: Pollution response

Legal basis: Regulation 724/2004

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Areas: maritime safety, preventing pollution from ships ship security, vessel traffic monitoring

• Ensure proper implementation of EU maritime legislationby Member States e.g. through inspections

• Provide technical advice to the Commission and Member States, e.g. to prepare coordinated positions for IMO

• Foster technical cooperation, e.g. systems for maritime surveillance

• Specific operational tasks, in the fields of pollution response, maritime surveillance and third country inspections

EMSA objectives

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•MSS 24/7 - maritime traffic picture SafeSeaNetLRIT

•Oil spill pollution monitoring and response Network of stand by oil pollution response vessels (and equipment)CleanSeaNet satellite monitoring service

Operational services from EMSA

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• Tasked by Directive 2005/35/EC on ship

sourced pollution and on the introduction of

penalties for infringements

• Monitoring for illegal discharges of oil from

ships, monitoring accidental spills in a pollution

emergency, identification of ‘hot-spots’

• Users in 26 countries (all EU Coastal States,

Norway, Iceland and Turkey)

• Integrated in national/regional pollution

response chain

• Became operational 16 April 2007

26 Coastal States currently users of CSN2500 satellite SAR images annually

EMSA - CleanSeaNet service

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Near Real Time Service – < 30 Minutes

Acquisition and Processing

Envisat, Radarsat 1&2

Oil Spill Analysis

Tromsø/Matera/Lisbon

Alert &Product Delivery

T0 = End of scene acquisition T = T0 + 30 min

Alert report

Phone and email alert

Web: Images and ancillary

information (wind,wave)

Planning

Feedback

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Polluter identification

• Spill detected on satellite image

• Ship connected to the slick identified

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ENVISAT 12 April 2008 20:16:53 UTC HELCOM AIS Web Server Replay mode

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AIS/LRIT combined with ship detection in SAR images for all EU waters

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Polluter Identification

Vessel identified

AIS data from

SafeSeaNet

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Oil spill modelling

Forecast spill drift

Backtrack drift

Surface trajectory of spill mass centre of gravityForecast + 24h Hindcast: -24h

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Oil spill modelling

Data exchange

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oil spill models:

-drift forecasting

-back-tracking

to id source of spill

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Experience of MyO products and services so far

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Monitoring of oil platforms

Deepwater HorizonENVISAT image 29 April 2010

CleanSeaNet

Scotland with oil spills from platforms visible

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•Review meeting MyO and EMSA 05.2011

� Work on Service Level Agreement

•Feedback from CSN operational user community in June 2011 and in December 2011

•Explore potential of MyOcean data in IMDatE at EMSA for new usercommunities (2012)

Next steps

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Maritime traffic and accidents

•Maritime traffic in European waters

– over 20,000 commercial ships at sea at any one time

– more than half a million port movements annually

•Hundreds of accidents annually(ship sinkings, collisions, groundings)

•Many lives lost (sinking of fishing vessels and accidents on cargo ships, illegal immigration)

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Search and Rescue

•National Coast Guards and other marine rescue agencies need to identify priority areas for investigation and define appropriatesearch patterns

– High resolution metocean information wind, wave, currents and sea

temperature conditions

– Local fine scale hydrodynamic models

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Sea Ice services

• Ice breaker operators use detailed information on open water location, ice concentration and ice type to identify the optimal ice breaking route

• High resolution, real time and forecast information for sea ice conditions are vital for safe passage

• Opening up of the ‘Northern Route’ between Europe and East Asia/China

– Increased exploitation of oil and gas in Arctic regions

– Increased traffic near sensitive Arctic eco systems

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© CSA/MDA/EMSA 2008

Satellite image: © ESA (European Space Agency) / EMSA 2009Photo: © MCA/Irish Coast Guard

Thank you