REGIONAL MARINE CENTRE, UG
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| Location | Accra, Ghana |
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| Introduction | The Regional Marine Centre, at University of Ghana is implementing the GMES & Africa project on Marine and Coastal Areas Management for western Africa. This action is in partnership with seven state institutions, namely NIOMR, CRODT, GMet, IRHOB, CURAT, WIA, INDP. The main beneficiaries of the project are environmental and fisheries managers and coastal communities in the 12 coastal countries West Africa. The EO services provided include: monitoring and forecasting of physical and biological oceanographic variables, information on ocean processes that impact fishing and safety of fishers; intelligence to combat illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing; monitoring of vulnerable coastal ecosystem/habitats, and shoreline changes. Another important component of the project is strengthening existing capacity to effectively utilize EO data, both by technocrats and policy and decision makers. The project is cofunded by the European Union and African Union Commissions |
| Interests | Earth Observation, Remote sensing, Marine environment, coastal environment, shoreline changes, ocean conditions, potential fishing zone maps, fishing vessel traffic |