Sea-basin monitoring system assessment activity to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime economy

摘要

The EMODNET Black Sea checkpoint is a sea-basin monitoring system assessment activity aiming to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime economy in the Black Sea by assessing the potential of current marine observation and data services to address end-user needs. By testing the data against specific end-user challenges, the Black Sea Checkpoint demonstrate how well the current monitoring systems and data collection frameworks provides data to meet the needs of users. In doing so, data gaps and duplications as well as significant bottlenecks are highlighted. In synthesis the Black Sea Checkpoint demonstrated that a quality assessment framework can be defined for the marine environment at basin scales. The framework allows for the first time to assess the monitoring from a customized end-product user point of view. Recommendations for the future development of the service are given in the conclusions.