How can the Mediterranean Region benefit from MedGOOS?
MedGOOS is conceived as a user-driven
system providing locally relevant, regional scale ocean
data that is sustained, integrated, operational, and targeted
for multiple users and applications. The advent of multi-disciplinary,
spatially widespread, long-term data sets is expected to
trigger an unprecedented leap in the economic value of ocean
data. This will bring about a radical transformation in
our perception of managing marine resources. Many sectors
in industry and services such as public health will benefit:
- capability
to make informed decisions based on knowledge of the
causes and consequences of change;
- enable
effective and sustainable management of the marine environment
in favour of fisheries, safe and efficient transportation,
coastal recreation and other marine-related industries
that contribute a large part of the total GNP for the
bordering countries;
- support
economies and improve standards of living by providing
the basis for enhanced marine services;
- mitigating
marine hazards, improve search and rescue operations,
and ensuring public health;
- detecting
and forecasting oceanic components of climate variability
due to human activity;
- preserving
and restoring healthy marine ecosystems.
