Title
  Clean Seas: marine pollution moitoring from space

  Authors
  G W Jolly,    Satellite Observing Systems
  V Barale,     Joint research Centre,  Ispra
  F Cauneau     Ecole des Mines de Paris
  M Gade,       University of Hamburg
  A Mangin,     ACRI
  O Rud,        Stockholm University
  J M Redondo,  Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  H M Snaith,   Southampton Oceanography Centre



  Abstract
  Integration of satellite remote sensing into the routine monitoring of
  European coastal waters has been identified by the European Commission as
  an issue of strategic importance.  Clean Seas is a methodological
  research project which started on December 1,  1996 and is part funded
  under Framework IV by DG XII.  Clean Seas is addressing the problem of
  reliable identification of marine pollutants using data from space borne
  sensors. The project makes exensive use of ERS SAR and ATSR data to
  investigate the correlation of observed pollution features not just from
  these instruments in isolation, but in conjunction with the NOAA AVHRR
  and ADEOS OCTS data sets as well.   The project has brought together
  Satellite Observing Systems and the Southampton Oceanography Centre in
  the UK,  ACRI and Ecole des Mines de Paris in France as well as the
  European Commission's Joint Research Centre,  Ispra in Italy,  and the
  Universities of Hamburg
  (Germany),  Stockholm (Sweden) and Catalunya (Spain).   The ultimate aim
  of the programme is to assess the overall contribution that the complete
  Earth observing system can make to the routine monitoring of marine
  pollution.

Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry