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ICEMON
Presentation at IICWG-IV by
Helge Tangen
Contents of presentation
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The ICEMON Consortium
Objectives and Scope of ICEMON
Services and Users
Open Service Partnership
Norwegian Meteorological Institute met.no
SAR ice monitoring for climate
research,
environmental management,
resource exploitation and marine
operation safety in polar regions
Helge Tangen (met.no), Project Manager
ICEMON partners:
NERSC, met.no, C-W, FIMR, VTT, FMA, SMHI, AWI,
Vexcel UK, UCL/CPOM, KSPT, KSAT, NPI, DNV,
IFREMER, CIS
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Consortium
•Operational Service providers:
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no)
• Kongsberg Satellite Systems (KSAT)
• Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR)
• IFREMER
• Swedish Met. and Hydrological Institute - Marine Forecasting Centre
• Canadian Ice Service (CIS)
•System Developers:
• Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
• Kongsberg Spacetec (KSPT)
• Vexcel UK (Vexcel)
•Research partners:
• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
• University College London, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (UCL)
• Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NERSC)
•Core User Group:
• Finnish Maritime Administration (FMA)
• Swedish Met. and Hydrological Institute-- Rossby Centre (RC)
• Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
• Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)
•Cost Benefit Analysis
• ControlWare
•Expert Consultants:
• Northern Sea Route Administration (NSRA)
• Murmansk Shipping Company (MSC)
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Who does what?
Prime contractor:
NERSC
Strategy Group
Pentti Malkki(FIMR)
Bruce Ramsay (CIS)
Ola M. Johannessen
(NERSC)
Operational
Service
providers
met.no
KSAT
FIMR
SMHI
IFREMER
CIS
System
developers
KSPT
Vexcel UK
VTT
Consultancy
ControlWare;
C/B Analysis
R&D
partners
Core
Users
AWI
NERSC
UCL/CPOM
FMA
DNV
SMHI/Rossby
NPI
(NSRA/MSC)
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Objectives and Scope of the
ICEMON Service
• Short-term Scope (1-2 years)
– Demonstrate SAR ice monitoring in key
areas of Arctic Ocean ++, delivering high
resolution products (<1 km)
– Significant improvement of quality
– Scatterometer products : ice drift on large
scale
– NRT products for operational users
– Offline info for climate monitoring (+ for
design criteria for maritime structures)
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ICEMON Service Coverage
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Objectives and Scope of the
ICEMON Service (contd.)
• Intermediate Scope (3-5 years)
– Sea ice products integrated with met. and oceanogr.
products (monitoring, hindcast and forecast)
– Expanded to include ice thickness from CryoSat
– Products used in modelling and data assimilation for
improved forecasting services
• Concept can only be implemented as joint
effort between key institutions and in synergy
with projects in operational oceanography.
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Objectives and Scope of the
ICEMON Service (contd.)
• Long-term Scope (10 years)
– Objective of ICEMON to deliver operational
monitoring and forecasting services of
met-ice-ocean conditions at HL.
– Integrated service network implemented
– Several providers supply different products
for different regions as part of a Global
Service System.
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Input
Data and Services
from several
providers
information input interface
Database system
Common processing system
ICEMON
Service
system
Ice
Service 1
Ice
Service 2
Ice
Service 3
Ice
Service 4
information output interface
Output
to the User segment
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Service network characteristics
• ICEMON will build a European monitoring and
forecasting capacity by integration of existing
operational services with new service providers
– Access to several services in one system -transparent for
users
– User-driven services and products
– Multiple options for entries (e.g. ENVISAT & Radarsat)
– Coverage of entire Arctic + European ice covered seas
– Close cooperation with Canada, USA and Russia; and with
other GMES services for optimal outputs
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User segments
• Ice navigation and
sea transport
• Environmental
monitoring
• Design of ships and
offshore
construction
• Weather and ice
services
• Port and maritime
authorities
• Climate monitoring
and control
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What are we trying to do?
• Why do users need our services?
– Ice + atmospheric-ocean parameters important for
• Navigation / offshore operations / exploitation
• Climate and environment monitoring
• How will they benefit from them?
– Better understanding of key climate processes at HL
– Better prevention and control of marine pollution 
management + conservation of Arctic ecosystems and
environment
– Safer sea transportation + offshore operations in Polar
regions
– Improved design criteria for vessels + marine constructions
in Polar regions
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Open Service Partnership
• ICEMON service concept envisaged to be open
met-ice-ocean service system where:
– Several providers can deliver products
– Users can obtain wide range of products via single
entry access point under agreed conditions
– Services are both chargeable and free-of-charge
– All service providers conform to agreed basic
functions and formats for metadata etc.
– Client software independent of service providers
– User requirements decide how integration of sercice
elements should be done: USER DRIVEN
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Links to other projects
• Links to other GMES Services Element consortia
– Northern View (CIS, FIMR, AWI)
– ROSE (met.no, NERSC…)
– GSE Forest Monitoring (VTT..)
• Links to on-going FP5 projects
– EuroClim (met.no, KSPT, NPI9
– IOMASA (met.no…)
• Links to proposed FP6 projects
– MERSEA (met.no, NERSC..)
• Links to other ESA development activities
– SAR ice modelling (last 10 years)
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