MarCOSouth
Promotes sustainable coastal and marine resources
management and governance across the region
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GMES&Africa MarCOSouth
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GMES & Africa – Marine and Coastal Operations for Southern Africa
GMES and Africa
Marine and Coastal Operations for Southern Africa (MarCOSouth) Project
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and Africa Marine and Coastal Operations for Southern Africa (MarCOSouth) project, aims to maintain, further develop and provide a sustainable platform for local, institutional, human and technical capabilities across Southern African countries.
This will be achieved through the development of regionally-optimised satellite observations and model-based forecast services focused on sustainable socio-economic development for the South and East African marine and coastal domains.
MarCOSouth is funded through the GMES and Africa programme and forms part of its Marine and Coastal Operations thematic area.
The MarCOSouth project is strongly aligned to the South African National Oceans and Coastal Information Management System (OCIMS). OCIMS has consolidated South African observational and forecasting expertise through the development of a range of services that are very similar in scope to those proposed for GMES and Africa.
A key value proposition of OCIMS is the powerful, scalable service development methodology; this identifies archetypal users, beneficiaries, policies, usage scenarios, as well as functional requirements.
The GMES and Africa MarCOSouth project will provide new co-designed decision-making services to promote sustainable management of marine resources, improve marine governance and stimulate the growth of the blue economy in the South and East African regions.
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Angola
- Benguela Current Convention
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Namibia
- Benguela Current Convention
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South Africa
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
- Benguela Current Convention
- National Sea Rescue Institute
- ABALOBI
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Mozambique
- University of Eduardo Mondlane
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Tanzania
- Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association
- University of Dar Es Salaam
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Kenya
- Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean
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Mauritius
- Mauritius Oceanography Institute