2. Direct EO response : water quality monitoring
Potential applications
1.Monitoring of chemical, microbiological and biological parameters.
2.Monitoring of Meteorological and Oceanographic Variables to Interpret the Results.
Demand for geo-information
1.Detection and monitoring of chlorophyll
2.Detection and monitoring of dissolved oxygen
3 Detection and monitoring of salinity
4.Detection and monitoring of temperature
5.Detection and monitoring of turbidity, suspended matter, sediment..
6.Monitoring of oceanographic data and maritime climate

3. Direct EO response : security issues
Potential applications
1 .Unknown vessel monitoring
2. Ship detection
3 Ship localisation
4. Cargo monitoring
Need for
Coupling with other surveillance systems

4. Kao-Hsiung harbour- EO for security
Plan du port de Kaohsiung

5. Change detection : July 7?
300m
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OUT
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1000m
Day 1
Day 2
Day3
Day 4
Day 5
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Day 7
Caution : scale & length are indicative
Viewing angle is unknown

6. Direct EO response : oil spill monitoring
Slick detection
Traffic Separation
Scheme off Finisterre
Ship detection
ENVISAT Wide Swath Image
17-NOV :45:03
Wind information

7. Direct EO response: Coastal erosion
Overlay of the digitalized coastline from a Very High Resolution EO data to the detailed reference cartography
Type of changes (e.g., sediment accumulation due to sediment transport)
Arial Length of part of modified coastline
Arial extent of the changes
Type of changes (e.g., sediment accumulation due to sediment transport)
Type of changes (e.g., sediment accumulation due to sediment transport)
Arial Length of part of modified coastline
Arial extent of the changes
Type of changes (e.g., sediment accumulation due to sediment transport)
Arial Length of part of modified coastline
Arial extent of the changes
Type of changes (e.g., sediment accumulation due to sediment transport)
Arial Length of part of modified coastline
Arial extent of the changes

8. Selected LHEON demonstrations
Company and Port where trial is being held
Title
Argoss (Netherlands) in the Harwich site (UK)
Suspended sediment concentration measurements
CLS (France) in the Port of Gijón (Spain)
EO/AIS/In situ integration in GIS
Planetek (Italy) in the Port of Genova
CODYM Coastal Dynamics Monitoring
Flyby (Italy) in the Port of Bastia- Corsica (FR)
SEALINE – Port Quality and Security study
Starlab (Spain) in the Port of Barcelona
GNSS-R Sea-State monitoring web based data service.
Hatfield (Canada) in the Port of Vancouver
Integration of EO in Environmental Impact Assessment for Local Harbour Authorities: A Review in Collaboration with Vancouver Port Authority

9. LHEON Workshop Current Geo-Information
Watching the oceans with GPS in Barcelona?

10. Problem to solve
Ports need oceanographic data for their routine operations.
Actual sea gauges (buoys) are in contact with water and expensive to maintain.
We seek to provide real time, web based available sea state information to be accessed from different staff in the port, from Environment to Operations, using a new “dry” technology, GNSS-R.

11. Technology & Demo Sea – State Data
Installation of Starlab's Oceanpal instrument at the Port of Barcelona
Acquisition of direct and reflected GNSS signals
Sea –State data extraction using Starlab algorithms
Transfer of data to Starlab
Web data distribution

12. INSTRUMENT ARCHITECTURE
ORFU
Oceanpal
Radio Frequency Unit RF
OAR
Oceanpal
Antenna Rig
data plus clock
OWL servers
ethernet
ODMU
Oceanpal Data Management Unit

13. Web Interface

14. Results Sea –State data verified against existing buoy networks
Web Service provided to the end-user, Port of Barcelona in this case, allowing interactive viewing of Sea State data with features such as historical scrolling and 1-click low level data for individual data points

15. Results in terms of SWH and Altimetry

16. User feedback
Main benefits from our point of view in comparison to other traditional systems (mainly buoys) are:
Cheaper costs for acquisition and maintenance
Easier installation and maintenance as it is a land based system
More security: no ship collision danger
Shorter data gaps in case of breakdown, replacement is easier
No need of installation administrative paperwork, permits or licenses, no beacons needed.

17. LHEON results
Real user driven project: six ports participated actively in the trials (highly practical and adapted to reality of ports).
Ports no longer see satellite data as something solely for scientists.
LHEON managed to present satellite in user forums and not in technology forums (typical of us, EO actors). Ecoports, Ancona…
LHEON managed expectations in a sincere way. Satellite cannot solve all problems but it may in the future, so start to know it now!!!
Ports are starting to understand that the use of satellite data can bring them the opportunity to participate in the definition of future satellite missions.

18. Thank you for your attention
Edifici de l’Observatori Fabra – Camí de l’Observatori s/n – Barcelona – Spain
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