Sea surface currents are probably one of the most relevant variable for a variety of challenges concerning the the marine environment management (e.g. safe and  efficient navigation, pollution dispersion, ecological connectivity, ...) . Within the framework of the MED OSMoSIS and COSMO projects, the ICM-CSIC has developed an atlas of surface and subsurface (depth ~ 15 m) currents for the Southern European seas: the Mediterranean basin and the Canary-Iberian-Biscay waters (Martinez et al., 2022). Surface Climatological Currents for May The Atlas is based on today’s state of the art reanalyses of the ocean circulation provided by the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS). Climatological values are computed from the median of the empirical probability density functions. The Atlas also includes the variance matrix as well as a bimodality index providing further quantitative information about temporal variability of the current at each location. Rose of currents and v...

  Shom is currently developing a platform dedicated to Nautical information named PING. The API (Application Programming Interface) Navigational Warnings S-124 module, developed within the MED OSMoSIS project, is the first increment of this platform and consists of the production and dissemination of Navigation Warnings (NW) through web services. Testing is being carried out on several aspects: the portal tools for NW production on the one hand, and the dissemination of navigational warnings for integration into client systems such as surveillance systems trough 2 protocols: WFS (Web Feature Services) and REST (Representational State Transfer). The different steps of the testing involve: -  the development of the API S-124 module itself, the installation of the hosting platform at Shom; -  the grant of access to the PING platform to participants from EU Member States; -  the issuing of navigational warnings by the French maritime authority through the portal tools...

In the framework of the project, Shom is conducting a pilot study on CISE to assess the technical and financial needs for the integration of Shom’s data in the CISE network. The common information sharing environment (CISE) is an EU initiative providing a decentralized framework for point-to-point information exchange across sectors and borders. It is involving more than 300 EU and national authorities with responsibilities in maritime surveillance. CISE aims to make European and national maritime surveillance systems interoperable, enabling all concerned authorities to exchange information in an automatic and secure way. Carrying out many different operational surveillance tasks, national authorities directly benefit from being connected to CISE, in various sectors: In the context of the study, Shom is getting involved in the CISE Network by connecting its legacy system (data.shom.fr portal) to the French Node as data provider. This task is performed in cooperation with SGMer (French...

The Lead Partner of MED OSMoSIS - GMMA ( Special Service of EU Structural Funds for the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy ) is developing a Web GIS portal base platform (maritime surveillance) in which several modules and tasks are being analyzed. Among other facilities of the platform, such as the integration and the access of geo-information, applications and reports, it is planned to unify into one source all the available systems that provide AIS information. To accomplish this a systematic method of logistics is being directly developed at this time, that will incorporate all available AIS signal transmits at a national level and from different databases into the Web GIS portal, as a unique reliable reference. That means that more than 6 available sources will be incorporated into one. The same challenge may have been experienced in your country. If so, let us know at what degree, and if you have evolved a similar solution of transformation (eg. integration of meteor...