The Production of Aquaculture and Environmental Maps to Support Spatial Planning

BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu

The production of aquaculture and environmental maps to support spatial planning

Miles Macmillan-Lawler, GRID-Arendal

[email protected]“Towards innovative data services for

Blue Growth” workshop 18 May 2016, Turku, Finland

European Maritime Day 2016

#EMD2016

05/03/2023 "Towards innovative data services for Blue Growth" workshop 18 May 2016, Turku, Finland

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GRID-Arendal

• Norwegian Foundation, Est 1989 to support United Nations Environment Programme

• Role in BlueBRIDGE - develop VREs under BlueENVIRONMENT Pillar


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Our experience

• Aquaculture production (FAO)• Satellite processing expertise (CLS)• Blue Carbon Assessment (CLS/GRID-Arendal)• Maritime Spatial Planning (GRID-Arendal)• Infrastructure (CNR/Engineering)


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Scientific & technical challenges

EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive• Where are aquaculture facilities? How does this change

over time?• Relationship between habitats (e.g. mangroves) and

aquaculture facilitiesCBD Aichi Target 11 / Carribean Challenge• What is within managed zones (e.g. MPAs)?• Seagrass, mangrove, coral reef, geomorphology• Human uses• Reporting towards CBD Aichi target 11


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Use cases

• Sentinel data to map aquaculture facilities in Greece

• Sentinel data to map aquaculture and mangroves in Indonesia

• Assessment of MPAs in Caribbean (Aichi target 11) – collaboration with JRC Biopama project


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VRE utility beyond case studies

• Maps of aquaculture facilties important to understand dynamics and expansion of industry – application in developing countries

• Interactions between aquaculture and mangroves (Blue Carbon)

• Support MSP – eg EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive

• Country reporting against CBD Aichi target 11


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Aquaculture Atlas Generation VRE

• Satellite data (Sentinel) to map aquaculture facilities (Radar)

• Build system to identify type of production facilities, area, etc.

• Time series from historical satellite data

• Link with maps of vegetation from satellite - dynamics


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Aquaculture and Mangrove

© MDA (2011)

20056 x 2 cages

20116 x 3 cages

Illustration of the potential of VHR Ikonos image for mapping mangrove growth stages.


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Protected Area Impact Maps VRE

• Analyse representation of MPAs (or other managed area)

• Aichi target 11


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Outcomes

EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive• Aquaculture atlas generation will allow rapid

assessment of country/regional aquaculture infrastructure using automated methods

• Better understanding of industry dynamics and interactions with key habitats

CBD Aichi Target 11• Reporting towards Aichi Target 11 for countries in

standardised way


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Future Steps

• VRE production started in March 2016 and the first version wil be available in December this year

• Currently integrating existing technologies for satellite processing to be accessible in VRE

• Developing analysis and reporting capabilities for Protected Area Imapct Maps

https://i-marine.d4science.org/group/aquacultureatlasgeneration

https://i-marine.d4science.org/group/protectedareaimpactmaps





Thank you

BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680

www.bluebridge-vres.eu

@BlueBridgeVREs [email protected]

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The Production of Aquaculture and Environmental Maps to Support Spatial Planning