Scientific user communities
Environmental Monitoring and Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management
The D4Science e-Infrastructures provide synergies across scientific communities which were in the past fragmented and which now benefit greatly from access to shared data streams.
Socio-ecosystem modelling requires numerous data sources such as satellite (ocean colour and reef maps), climate, hydrographic and trade data. The cooperation between FAO, WorldFish Center and ESA provides a basis for enhanced modelling approaches. This collaboration between the Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management and Environmental Monitoring communities acts as a catalyst leading to further enlargement of the community to other groups such as oceanographers and economists.
The work that the Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management and Environmental Monitoring communities is doing can be applied to the whole domain of biodiversity management (natural resources management), both biodiversity conservation and biodiversity exploitation as catch (mainly fisheries) and farming (both land and aquatic, i.e. aquaculture). Therefore, the project not only brings together the typically separated communities of fisheries/aquaculture and environmental monitoring, but it also creates a solid framework and a process for further cooperation of this type across other related communities.
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