COP2-DU

Programme: Copernicus Marine Service

Project title: Copernicus Marine – Digital Operations of Dissemination Services – LOT-1 Operating the Dissemination Unit

Acronym: COP2-DU

Role in the project: Lead Partner

Duration: 01/01/2022 – 30/09/2023
Total budget: € 4.500.000

ISMAR budget: € 490.000

Web site: https://marine.copernicus.eu/

Key words: Copernicus programme, end-users, forecast, oceanography, ocean & climate, data analysis and processing, operational mode, service providers.

Summary:
The Copernicus Marine Service (or Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service) is the marine component of the Copernicus Programme of the European Union. It provides free, regular and systematic authoritative information on the state of the Blue (physical), White (sea ice) and Green (biogeochemical) ocean, on a global and regional scale. It is funded by the European Commission (EC) and implemented by Mercator Ocean International. It is designed to serve EU policies and International legal Commitments related to Ocean Governance, to cater for the needs of society for global ocean knowledge and to boost the Blue Economy across all maritime sectors by providing free-of-charge state-of-the-art ocean data and information.
It provides key inputs that support major EU and international policies and initiatives and can contribute to: combating pollution, marine protection, maritime safety and routing, sustainable use of ocean resources, developing renewable marine energy resources, supporting blue growth, climate monitoring, forecasting, and more. It also aims to increase awareness amongst the general public by providing European and global citizens with information about ocean-related issues.
Product Management function is ensured by a central IT element of the system – the Marine Data Store (MDS), composed by Central DU and DRAS systems – where all product data will be stored, registered and organized for their exploitation and a Marine Information System (MIS) manages all IT data flows.
The Central Dissemination Unit (DU): it is the main operational Back-End component of the system which allows collection of data, its storage and backing up, and delivering all standard delivery interfaces on which all Front-End services such as the Central Portal (and 3rd party websites) rely on.
Contact person in ISMAR: vega.forneris@cnr.it

Partnership:

1. CNR-ISMAR (Italy)
2. ACRI-ST (France))
3. ADWAISEO (Luxembourg)
4. ETT (Italy)
5. IFREMER (France)
6. INNUERE (Italy)
7. LASERROMAE (Italy)
8. SERCO-Italia (Italy)
9. T-SYSTEMS (France)