Advice4COASTS is a service platform for coastal decision makers. It simplifies the monitoring of coastal environments, supports efficient measurement campaigns and strengthens reporting capacities.

Packed in a smart web app, the new service supports two main applications:

• Bathing Water Quality Monitoring and
• Environmental Monitoring and Reporting

Key data in one place

Advice4COASTS leverages data from various Copernicus Service sources such as Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS), and the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). The tool not only aggregates policy-specific key oceanographic and water quality parameters. It also offers automated data integration, analysis, and visualisation.

Coastal decision makers benefit from short- and long-term insights, real-time alerts, and heatmaps or hotspot analysis, visualised on a single dashboard. Users can freely select their areas of interest, ranging from small nearshore bays to large areas of open sea.

This article about a use case at the German Baltic coast highlights heatmaps, one of the key features. It enables to identify ideal conditions for growing seaweed or detect hotspots of eutrophication.

In line with EU directives

The online solution empowers coastal environmental and health authorities to

• perform in-situ campaigns for directive reporting
• identify hot spots of pollution and eutrophication
• detect environmental risks such as algae blooms,
• and comply with key EU directives, including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and the Bathing Water Directive (BWD).

By combining Copernicus datasets and in situ measurements, the new service will support water quality monitoring and key environmental directives.

Advice4COASTS has been funded by the Copernicus Marine Service National Collaboration Programme 2021-2028.

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