Tomorrow project COSMEMOS will be concluded on the meteorological innovation applied to marine navigation



Tomorrow a demonstration articulated on three days will be concluded that the term of project COSMEMOS, an initiative of international search sanctions on the meteorological innovation applied to marine navigation time to create a new class of services weather in order to optimize the routes of the ships, increasing some safety and reducing the costs. The demonstration has been opened yesterday with a scientific seminary to the Area of the Search of the CNR of Florence and continues today on board of the ferry MegaExpress Two di Corsica Ferries in order to shut itself tomorrow to the Island of Elba with a demonstrative workshop for experts of the field.

The project has involved two years activity of search for the development of new services weather based on the European system of navigation satellite and dedicated to the requirements of marine navigation.
COSMEMOS (Cooperatives Satellite navigation for MEteomarine MOdelling and Services) is a project financed in the within of the seventh Program Picture of Search managed from the European Agency for satellite navigation (GSA), coordinated from Vitrociset Belgium, with scientific coordination entrusted to the LaMMA Consortium (public consortium between Tuscany Region and National Consiglio of the Searches), directed to develop to new solutions for the acquisition and the elaboration of the data weather in sea that take advantage of the new signs of the European system of satellite navigation Galileo.

Cosmemos has afforded to on board test a cooperative outline for the collection of the coming data from the instruments of the boats, so as to give back to the users a detailed meteorological information also on the marine areas. In the course of the project some techniques of measure from mobile platform are experienced - which a ship - completely new and base on sensors that try the signs of satellite navigation, GPS and Galileo. The elaborations of these given flows are integrated, with opportune techniques of assimilation, in the models weather to high resolution, as those already operating to the LaMMA, for the improvement of the forecasts weather-navy and the creation of innovative services of weather-routing, that is meteorological optimization of the routes with the purpose to improve of safety and to reduce of the fuel burnups, therefore the costs.

Al project participates the Forship group, to which the navigation companies are under responsibility Corsica, Sardinia and Elba Ferries. On the ship Mega Express Two di Corsica Ferries some of the instruments used from the project are installed: system GNSS, for the vertical profiles of temperature and humidity of the air, and the OceanPal instrument, for the measure of the height of wave. Today on the ship the test of the procedures is carried out and of the instrumentation of search mounted on board of the ferry and the investigators and the revisers of the EU commission and the GSA they will follow the demonstration in the course of a normal navigation draft towards the Corsica. The results, still partially experimental, will be introduced tomorrow in the technical workshop that will be carried out to the Island of Elba, to Cable, and the public of professionals in various withins of marine navigation, invited for the occasion, will be able to discuss on the possible advantages deriving from the services tested inside of the project. The workshop will be transmitted in streaming to the http://live.mainstreaming.eu/account/5190/event/pYHtIMW address.