MARCOAST (MARine and COASTal environmental information center)
This project covers a variety of crucial issues related to the understanding and management of sea waters and coastal regions.

The service portfolio ranges from the provision of data to integrated products, aiming at monitoring the water quality, the coastal hydrodynamics and land-cover changes, developing environmental indicators to investigate the coastal erosion and the effects of human activity.
The marine products include the monitoring of the chlorophyll concentration, water transparency, sea-surface temperature, algal bloom and other related services.
The Earth Observation data sources are MERIS, AVHRR, SeaWIFS and MODIS. Telespazio is also involved in the MarCoast ESA-GMES program activities, where it plays the role of Oil Spill leader in the Mediterranean area, providing Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia with the NRT Oil Spill service.
MarCoast is intended to qualify a portfolio of information services as fit for operational purpose and demonstrate progress towards sustainable implementation of these services. Oil spill information services include basic pollution alert, polluter identification through combination of EO data and Automatic Identification System vessel information and oil slick drift forecasting.

During the Third and last Phase of the project (2008), also COSMO-SkyMed data have been acquired and processed in NRT (Near Real Time) by Telespazio:

CSK 2 WIDE REGION image (22nd Oct 08, h04:43 UTC) –
Example of Oil Spill and Ship Detection

CSK 1 HIMAGE image (16th Nov 08, h05:01 UTC) –
Example of AIS correlation and relevant info access for a C Class ship.