ICEMON

Presentation at IICWG-IV byHelge Tangen

Norwegian Meteorological Institute met.no

Contents of presentation

• The ICEMON Consortium• Objectives and Scope of ICEMON• Services and Users• Open Service Partnership

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SAR ice monitoring for climate research,

environmental management, resource exploitation and marine operation safety in

polar regionsHelge Tangen (met.no), Project Manager

ICEMON partners:NERSC, met.no, C-W, FIMR, VTT, FMA, SMHI,

AWI,Vexcel UK, UCL/CPOM, KSPT, KSAT, NPI,

DNV, IFREMER, CIS

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Consortium•Operational Service providers:

• Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no)• Kongsberg Satellite Systems (KSAT)• Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR) • IFREMER • Swedish Met. and Hydrological Institute - Marine Forecasting Centre• Canadian Ice Service (CIS)

•System Developers:• Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)• Kongsberg Spacetec (KSPT)• Vexcel UK (Vexcel)

•Research partners:• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)• University College London, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (UCL) • Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NERSC)

•Core User Group: • Finnish Maritime Administration (FMA)• Swedish Met. and Hydrological Institute-- Rossby Centre (RC)• Det Norske Veritas (DNV)• Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)

•Cost Benefit Analysis• ControlWare

•Expert Consultants:• Northern Sea Route Administration (NSRA)• Murmansk Shipping Company (MSC)

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Who does what?Prime contractor:

NERSC

Strategy GroupPentti Malkki(FIMR)Bruce Ramsay (CIS)Ola M. Johannessen

(NERSC)

ConsultancyControlWare;C/B Analysis

Systemdevelopers

KSPTVexcel UK

VTT

R&Dpartners

AWI

NERSC

UCL/CPOM

CoreUsers

FMA

SMHI/Rossby

DNV

NPI

(NSRA/MSC)

OperationalService

providers

met.noKSATFIMR

SMHI

IFREMERCIS

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Objectives and Scope of the ICEMON Service

• Short-term Scope (1-2 years)– Demonstrate SAR ice monitoring in key

areas of Arctic Ocean ++, delivering high resolution products (<1 km)

– Significant improvement of quality– Scatterometer products : ice drift on

large scale– NRT products for operational users– Offline info for climate monitoring (+

for design criteria for maritime structures)

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ICEMON Service Coverage

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Objectives and Scope of the ICEMON Service (contd.)

• Intermediate Scope (3-5 years)– Sea ice products integrated with met. and

oceanogr. products (monitoring, hindcast and forecast)

– Expanded to include ice thickness from CryoSat– Products used in modelling and data

assimilation for improved forecasting services

• Concept can only be implemented as joint effort between key institutions and in synergy with projects in operational oceanography.

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Objectives and Scope of the ICEMON Service (contd.)

• Long-term Scope (10 years)– Objective of ICEMON to deliver

operational monitoring and forecasting services of met-ice-ocean conditions at HL.

– Integrated service network implemented

– Several providers supply different products for different regions as part of a Global Service System.

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InputData and Services

from several providers

Output to the User segment

information input interface

information output interface

Database system

Common processing system

IceService 2

IceService 1

IceService 3

IceService 4

ICEMON

Service system

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Service network characteristics

• ICEMON will build a European monitoring and forecasting capacity by integration of existing operational services with new service providers– Access to several services in one system -

transparent for users– User-driven services and products– Multiple options for entries (e.g. ENVISAT &

Radarsat)– Coverage of entire Arctic + European ice covered

seas– Close cooperation with Canada, USA and Russia; and

with other GMES services for optimal outputs

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User segments

• Ice navigation and sea transport

• Design of ships and offshore construction

• Port and maritime authorities

• Environmental monitoring

• Weather and ice services

• Climate monitoring and control

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What are we trying to do?• Why do users need our services?

– Ice + atmospheric-ocean parameters important for• Navigation / offshore operations / exploitation• Climate and environment monitoring

• How will they benefit from them?– Better understanding of key climate processes at HL– Better prevention and control of marine pollution

management + conservation of Arctic ecosystems and environment

– Safer sea transportation + offshore operations in Polar regions

– Improved design criteria for vessels + marine constructions in Polar regions

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Open Service Partnership

• ICEMON service concept envisaged to be open met-ice-ocean service system where:– Several providers can deliver products– Users can obtain wide range of products via

single entry access point under agreed conditions– Services are both chargeable and free-of-charge– All service providers conform to agreed basic

functions and formats for metadata etc.– Client software independent of service providers– User requirements decide how integration of

sercice elements should be done: USER DRIVEN

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Links to other projects

• Links to other GMES Services Element consortia

– Northern View (CIS, FIMR, AWI)– ROSE (met.no, NERSC…)– GSE Forest Monitoring (VTT..)

• Links to on-going FP5 projects– EuroClim (met.no, KSPT, NPI9– IOMASA (met.no…)

• Links to proposed FP6 projects– MERSEA (met.no, NERSC..)

• Links to other ESA development activities– SAR ice modelling (last 10 years)