MED 2018 is a user consultation meeting organized on 11-12 December 2018 in ESA -ESRIN Frascati, Italy to define a roadmap for a Mediterranean initiative within ESA's EO Science for Society Programme Element, encompassing topics such as atmosphere, oceanography, climate and land research and applications.

The Mediterranean Sea region is surrounded by 22 countries, which together share a coastline of 46000 km. About 250 million people resides in coastal hydrological basins and a 50% population growth was reported in 20 years at the end of the 90’s.

Fragility and vulnerability of the Mediterranean system is well known and since the 70’s international efforts are ongoing to protect it. In this context, Earth Observation (EO) represents an opportunity for innovative science, applications and information services to face some of these issues as well as a potential catalyser for innovation and growth in the region.

Planetek joined MED 2018 with a presentation and with 3 posters:

• Day 1 - 11/12/2018 at 16,20 - Session SEA 1 -"Geo-analytics for the Mediterranean wealth" (Sylos Labini, Giovanni, Planetek Italia Srl)
• Innovative Coastal Eutrophication Index Estimation of the Sustainable Development Goal 14 Exploiting IDAS Platform, CMEMS Products and Geo-analytics Approach. (Download PDF)
• Continuous Monitoring of Coastal Waters With Rheticus® Marine for the Blue Economy. (Download PDF)
• Thematic Exploitation Platforms: Web and Cloud technologies in Support of Coastal Enviroment. (Download PDF)

Further information and registration at http://med2018.esa.int