EARTH OBSERVATION AS A SUPPORT TO MARINE AQUACULTURE (SITES OPTIMIZATION AND MONITORING) – THE DUE-SMART PROJECT

摘要

The SMART project (Sustainable Management of Aquaculture through Remote sensing Technology, www.smart-eo.eu), supported by ESA DUE-Innovator program, aims to use the most advanced of Earth Observation (EO) to develop coastal aquaculture services. We present here the results concerning the monitoring of natural marine conditions for operational aquaculture, the optimization of locations for farming and the mapping of potential in terms of carrying capacity for shellfish. In this context EO derived information like Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) and Suspended Matters (SPM), has been validated and used as input for a growth model of mussels. Moreover, a fish cage detection methodology based on Sentinel-1 and 2 images has been developed to map out cages number and location in the western Mediterranean Sea.