Incidents of people drowning, fatalities, property loss and damage occur daily in South Africa and neighbouring countries. These incidents are often a result of people going out to sea without adequate knowledge of the prevailing conditions, or how those conditions may change while they are at sea. Therefore, this raises a need for monitoring of the oceans and provision of information regarding sea state to all that make use of the ocean including artisanal fishermen, coastal communities, tourists and other sea farers. Conversely, there is a need to provide safety to all that make use of the oceans and to assist in cases where lives and property get lost or distressed at sea. The South African Exclusive Economic Zone covers approximately 1.5-million km2 across the Atlantic, Southern and Indian Oceans, therefore carrying out a rescue mission is equivalent to looking for a needle in a haystack. The vast area and high levels of activity in the Southern African oceanic territory pose a challenge to effective monitoring of the ocean and performing sea rescue missions.
\nThe MarCOSIO Safety at Sea service, developed in 2019, under the GMES and Africa project, makes use of earth observation data as a wide area monitoring tool to enable safe use of oceanic territories as well as to support rescue missions by authorised personnel. The service provides vital sea state and rescue information for Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4190,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"pays":[83],"institution_de_mise_en_oeuvre":[96],"thematiques":[88],"implementing_institutions":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-4189","success_stories","type-success_stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","pays-south-africa","institution_de_mise_en_oeuvre-csir","thematiques-marine-resources"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n