ASTRIIS marketplace for ocean data products and services begins to take shape

Under the designation “Atlantic Sustainability Through Remote and In-situ Integrated Solutions”, ASTRIIS is a Portuguese R&D project, funded by Portugal2020 Programme, whose main objective is the development of information services to support sustainable development of the Blue Economy.

The project will help to fill the existing knowledge gaps by collecting, harmonising, and making available data on the observation of the marine environment with in-situ means and new applications based on Earth observation via remote sensing, either by space platforms or by aerial means.

The project consortium is led by Tekever Space and joins key Portuguese companies and R&D centres from the sector, namely +ATLANTIC, CEiiA, ISR, MARETEC and CERENA from IST, LSTS from FEUP, Universidade do Algarve, Universidade do Minho, ISQ, Tekever AS, WavEC, Oceanscan, Abyssal, Hidromod and Spin.Works. ASTRIIS work is organised to provide a set of products and services, emerging from data acquisition through in situ observation and remote sensing, combined with numerical modelling and forecasting and integrated into a market platform.

On 7 April 2022, +ATLANTIC, MARETEC and Tekever gathered at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon for a presential meeting to discuss project achievements and integration of modelling solutions into the market platform. During this meeting, the project team defined the data standards for communication of model outputs into the platform, which will act as a data hub integrating some of the project services. Potentially, the platform can provide access to products and services in areas as distinct as:

  • Search & Rescue
    • In-Situ Data
    • Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV)
    • Images on Request
    • Lagrangean Models
  • Harmful Algae Blooming Tracking on Aquaculture
    • Modelling
    • Propagation
    • In-Situ Data
    • Images on Request
  • Historical Climate Data
    • Remote Satellite Imagery
    • In-Situ Data
    • Modelling
  • Oil Spills Tracking
    • Remote Satellite Imagery & Data
    • Modelling
    • In-Situ Data
    • Lagrangean Models

On 28 April 2022, all ASTRIIS partners gathered online to discuss the progress in the development of the integrated market platform and the main achievements of the project.

More news from ASTRIIS soon. Stay tuned!