The Global Monitoring Programme Data Warehouse serves the purpose of monitoring POPs in core media (air, human milk/blood and water) in order to enable policy makers and international organisations to improve decision-making in risk assessment.

SAMTool is an operational service which provide access to sargassum observations from satellite and sargassum drift estimation using a drift model.

Using a synergy of satellite sensors, it allows to access local information at 20-m resolution and immediate landings, and regional overview of the overall sargassum situation in the Atlantic Ocean at 300-m and 1-km resolution for seasonal planning of the future sargassum influxes.

Environment, climate & health / Enrivonmental, biodiversity, pollution

Managed living resources / Fisheries

Infrastructure & transport / Travel & tourism

CERMES (Centre for Ressource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) of the University of the West Indies), based in Barbados, has the mission to contribute to sustainable development in the Carribean region. CERMES provides environmental guidances, consultanty and services to regional governments, NGOs and private sector in the Carribean.

CLS, a subsidiary of CNES and CNP, is a worldwide company and pioneer provider of monitoring and surveillance solutions for the Earth since 1986. Our mission is to deploy innovative space-based solutions to understand and protect our planet, and to manage its resources sustainably.

The company works in 5 strategic areas of activity: sustainable fisheries management, environmental monitoring, maritime surveillance, mobility and energies & infrastructures monitoring.

CLS process environmental data and positions from 80,000 beacons per month , ocean and inland waters observations . In addition we monitor land and sea activities by satellite.

CERMES is relying on CLS high resolution (300m) weekly product of sargassum detection from multiple satellites sensors to produce a 6-month outlook bulletin on the upcoming sargassum season. This data helps CERMES to warn on the impacts on the tourism and fisheries industries in the Caribbean.

“CLS has graciously allowed us access to their 7 day composite data files of high resolution satellite coverage for the entire subtropical region of interest.  Forward tracking using a drifter based climatological ocean model from sargassum identified in the CLS composite shows the present situation in the tropical Atlantic and the expected situation until 6 months in advance.  Once again, thank you for allowing access to your great data”

Donald Johnson, USM, on behalf of CERMES

Sargassum influxes are impacting the local communities of the Carribean, marine environnment, population health and tourism & fisheries economies.

There is a need to prepare for the upcoming influxes events and prepare accordingly the mitigation actions for collection, beach cleaning, etc.

Challenges: Detect sargassum data from daily satellite images over the whole Tropical Atlantic and in the West African regions for seasonal planning of sargassum influxes in the Carribean islands.

Initiative: CERMES is releasing bi-monthly sub-regional Sargassum Outlook Bulletin comprising a 6-monthly forecast of sargassum influxes.

• Daily detection of sargassum of the entire Tropical Region including Gulf of Guinea
• EO images allow a 6-month prediction of the sargassum situation
• Allows the local communities to prepare the management of the sargassum issue

Learn more about the service: https://datastore.cls.fr/products/samtool-sargassum-detection/    https://datastore.cls.fr/sargassum-seasonal/

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