Argomarine project

Parco Nazionale Arcipelago Toscano

Automatic Oil spill Recognition and Geopositioning integrated in a Marine Monitoring Network

venerdì 13 aprile 2012


The Mediterranean Sea:a small big sea

Extention: 3.000 x 900 km Recycling time: 7.000 yearsHigh-density of protected

marine areas

More than 20 countries on the sea with more than 400 millions of inhabitants.130 millions of people live on the coastal strip

584 cities750 harbours and 286 commercial ports13 gas installation180 termoelectric power plants2,000 ferries1,500 freight ships2,000 commercial crafts and tankers370 M oil tons per year carried(25% of the world amount of oil sea traffic)



Tuscan Archipelago National Park is part of the International Mediterranean Sea

Cetaceans Sanctuary



Commercial crafts and tankers cross every day the area of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park and high value environmental areas



Tuscan Archipelago

Oil spill density in the Mediterranean Sea

Zakynthos National Marine Park



Oil transport map Oil routes crossing

mainly Tuscan Archipelago

National Park



Marine traffic in the area of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos

Reproduction area of Caretta Caretta



One day, in the other part of the world

- 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day

- 105 days to stop the oil spill

-30,000 to 270,000 barrels of oil on the sea.

- 1,300 vessels on site, dozens of aircrafts, rem3otely operated vehicles, and multiple mobile offshore drilling units.

- 300,000 feet of containment boom and 1 million feet of sorbent boom used.

- Approximately 11 million gallons of an oil-water mix recovered

- Approximately 840,000 gallons of total dispersant deployed

-from National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG)

20 April, 2010 - h. 9.4564km SW from Mississipi delta

BP Deepwater Horizon



One day, in Tuscan Archipelago National Park

14 January 2012 - h. 21.42Isola del Giglio, Tuscan Archipelago

Costa Concordia

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In the Mediterranean Sea about 60 maritime accidents occur per year, 15 of them involving ships

provoking oil/chemical spills.



ARGOMARINEWhy?



OBJECTIVESTo develop and to test a Marine Information System (MIS) capable of providing precise and punctual pollution control in coastal zone areas with vulnerable or protected habitats as

those of the Tuscan Archipelago

ACTIVITIESTo develop and to combine marine observig technologies for a more reliable detection and the monitoring of hydrocarbon/oil spills in marine environment, in support of preventive and emergency interventions.

To develop an Integrated Communication System (ICS) to ensure reliable and efficient data transmission from different types of sensors to the MIS, providing an accurate geo-positioning of every data item.

To develop and to test a Marine Information System (MIS), an operational central unit provided with evaluation and decision-making power (expert system) where remote sensing data, field experiment results and estimates from simulation models are integrated in order to support the authorities in emergency handling and management.



MIS

Marine Information System - Data Sources

M.I.S

Satellite remote sensors

AUVAutonomous underwater

vehicle

Electronic Noses

AIS and VTS (radar)

Sensors on autonomous buoys



Sources of data collection1) SAR sensors (Synthetic Aperture Radar) from ERS-1, ERS-2, ENVISAT-ASAR, TerraSAR-X and

Cosmo-SkyMed



2) Optical hyperspectral-mutispectral sensors mounted on vessels or flying platforms

Sources of data collection



3) Electronic large band chemical sensors (e-nose) hosted on buoys or Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) able to carry out unsupervised autonomous missions.

Buoys on high value environmental areas (Laganas bay, Zakynthos Island, etc.)

AUV able to patrol wide areas

Sources of data collection



Sensors on buoys or AUV watch on all the accesses into the protected marine areas (Isola di Pianosa, Montecristo)

Other usages | Surveillance



Passive acoustic sensors monitor possible illegal accesses within the borders of highly protected

areas (Laganas Bay, Isola di Pianosa).

Other usages | Surveillance



Previsional Calculus

MIS analyzes data from sensors and integrates them with mathematical-

hydrodynamic models and weather forecast



Argus PanoptesThe hundred-eyed giant in charge

of watching over Zeus’ nymph

YESTERDAY



TODAY

ARGOMARINEThe hundred-eyes software in charge of watching over the

Mediterranean precious islands.



ARGOMARINE will be tested on sea simulation activities

EU GMES integration(Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)

7th Framework Programme - European Union

Area: COOPERATIONTHEME 7 - TRANSPORT

7th Framework Programme on Research and Technological Development: The main EU research funding instrument

Parco Nazionale dell’Arcipelago Toscano- Project management and coordination- Field test support and coordination- Project results dissemination and communication

Budget: 4,299,005, EU contribution € 3.270.314

Starting date: 01.09.2009

Duration months: 36 (Until 01.09.2012)



Partners

Partners Nation

National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago - PNAT Italy

National Technical University of Athens - NTUA Greece

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione, Pisa - CNR / ISTI Italy

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center - NERSC Norway

Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental – Universidade do Algarve - CIMA Portugal

National Maritime Park of Zakinthos - NMPZ Greece

Joint Research Center EU

NATO Undersea Research Center NATO


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Contacts:

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www.slideshare.net/ARGOMARINEMichele Cocco, Ph.D., Coordinator, ARGOMARINE Projectc/o Tuscan Archipelago National Park,Loc. Enfola - 57037 Portoferraio - Isle of Elba (LI), Italymobile: +39-348 7045202phone: +39-0565 919433fax: +39-0565 919428skype: mike-elba

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