Monitoring our oceans

Published on 04/07/2025

Essential to life on Earth, a major player in climate change and human activity, the ocean deserves our full attention. On every continent, the SCO supports sentinel projects, three of which came together on 1 July 2025 for the first ClimateSCOpe. Replay.

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ClimateSCOpe, the new meeting place for international SCO projects. Image de fonds Pléiades © CNES/Airbus DS. Images bulles Sentinel © Copernicus programme

With 75 connections and very positive feedback, this first international meeting of SCO projects was a great success. Congratulations to the Global Awareness working group that organized it!

Thank you to all the participants. We look forward to seeing you on 23 October for the next meeting on the theme of forests as part of COP30.

Interventions

Introduction by Lorant Czaran, Head of the Space Applications Section at UNOOSA and Frédéric Bretar, Head of the Space for Climate Observatory (SCO) at CNES.
Preamble: presentation by Nicolas Picot (CNES) of the Franco-American SWOT satellite mission which, since 2023, has been revolutionizing space altimetry and hydrology with results of exceptional quality and accuracy.
🇳🇴 HabHB project, by Lars Johan Nautsvoll from the Institute of Marine Research, which aims to improve the detection and warning of high-biomass phytoplankton blooms in Norwegian fjords, whose adverse impact on coastal activities is accentuated by climate change.
🇫🇷 LITTOSAT project, by Marie Jagaille from the Franch company Hytech-Imaging, which has implemented an infrastructure for the production and distribution of seasonal regional satellite products, making it possible to observe changes in coastal vegetation and measure the effects of climate change.
🇸🇪🇬🇧 SwedCoast-BlueCarb project, by Susanne Kratzer from Stockholm University, to produce maps of underwater vegetation in order to provide information on Baltic blue carbon, climate change, and the effect of land type and land use on coastal water quality.