Sébastien Legrand and Ronny Schallier (2020)
System-to-system Interface Between the EMSA CleanSeaNet Service and OSERIT
In: Remote Detection and Maritime Pollution - Chemical Spill Studies, ed. by Stéphane Le Floch and Frédéric Muttin. Wiley, chap. 8, pp. 87-114. (ISBN: 9781786306395).
The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
(RBINS) develop and operate together a system-to-system interface between the EMSA’s
CleanSeaNet service and OSERIT, the Belgian Oil Spill Evaluation and Response Integrated Tool. This
interface is meant to provide CleanSeaNet users with a support tool for early and automatic oil drift
and fate simulation results of any satellite-detected oil spills reported by the CleanSeaNet service in
the North Sea and the English Channel. In view of the automatic forecast and backtrack simulations
results, CleanSeaNet users have the possibility to further refine this early risk assessment either by
activating their own national decision support system or by requesting new, advanced simulations
through the CleanSeaNet GIS viewer.
This interface is currently passing the final acceptance tests. However, the system has already been
used by RBINS for the oil pollution event subsequent to the Flinterstar sinking at 8km off the port of
Zeebruges on the 6 th of October 2015. This event perfectly illustrates the potential synergies of
remote sensing and modelling in case of marine pollution and their integration in risk assessments
that must be performed for any significant pollution of the marine system.
Proceedings, Peer Review
- ISBN: 9781786306395
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