2 1. Table of Contents 2. Committees ................................................................................................................................................. 8 Organising Committee .................................................................................................................................... 8 3. Abstracts .................................................................................................................................................... 10 Session A1: Supporting and Strengthening Innovation Clusters in the Atlantic Region ............................... 10 AtlanticGEOSS: Cooperation for a better understanding of the Atlantic .................................................. 10 Atlantic Blue Smart Clustering................................................................................................................... 11 How Pre-Commercial Procurement Can Boost Innovation in Earth Observation Applications: The Marine-EO Project ..................................................................................................................................... 11 AIR Centre: Stimulating the Use of EO Tools for Decision-Making in the Atlantic.................................... 11 The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) – Leading Test Facilities for Marine and Maritime Research, Technological Development and Innovation ............................................................................ 12 Atlantic Youth Creative Hubs - Social innovation for young people through design, creative thinking, digital technologies and Maker Cultures. ................................................................................................. 12 Session S1 Open Ocean and Coastal Processes............................................................................................. 13 Bathymetry Improvement and Tidal Modelling in the North-East Atlantic Ocean ................................... 13 Observing and predicting internal wave interactions between the Amazon plume and the equatorial currents in the tropical West Atlantic ....................................................................................................... 14 Observational challenges for studying coastal eddies: an application case in the Bay of Biscay ............. 14 Opportunities for Coastal Risk Applications offered by SAR-mode Satellite Altimetry ............................ 15 UPorto activities in Earth Observation - a contribute to a better monitoring of open-ocean and coastal sea level ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Regional sea level and sea state change in the Atlantic from space......................................................... 16 Sea level trends and variability on the European shelf based on 2D statistical reconstruction and altimetry .................................................................................................................................................... 17 Ocean data analysis and dynamical systems: applications and perspectives ........................................... 17 The Atlantic Ocean And Factors Relating to Cyclogenesis ........................................................................ 18 Accuracy assessment of Sentinel-3A, MODIS-Aqua and VIIRS ocean colour products in the Atlantic Ocean. ....................................................................................................................................................... 18 Retroflection structures and transports as inferred from satellite-derived salinity maps ....................... 18 Improved satellite sea surface salinity maps to further the understanding of the Southern Ocean dynamics.................................................................................................................................................... 19 Arctic and North Atlantic Sea Surface Salinity retrieval. ........................................................................... 19 Session A2 Natural Resources Management ................................................................................................ 20 Monitoring and surveillance of fishing activity in the central Atlantic. .................................................... 20 The offshore New European wind atlas .................................................................................................... 20 3 Rheticus® Marine: Sentinel and Copernicus data for operative and continuous monitoring of coastal waters and resources ................................................................................................................................ 20 On the improvements on wave forecasting in North Atlantic ocean ....................................................... 21 Wave climate analysis for the North Sea .................................................................................................. 21 Using Sentinel-1 to detect aquaculture structures in Spain ..................................................................... 22 Building a Fishery Support Service ............................................................................................................ 22 Managing Atlantic Ocean resource availability and exploitation: Maritime vessel detection and behavioural analysis to identify uncooperative vessels associated with oil pollution and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) ................................................................................................ 23 Session A3 Maritime Transport and Port Development ............................................................................... 23 Implementation of Blue Growth Strategy in Port of Vigo ......................................................................... 23 Atlantic Port Cities : Looking Back to the Sea ............................................................................................ 24 Unprecdented coverage of the earth Including ports and other important Maritime Areas................... 24 TOPVOYS - Tools for Optimizing Performance of Voyages at Sea ............................................................ 24 Session S2 Biogeochemical Oceanography ................................................................................................... 25 Decadal reanalysis of biogeochemical indicators and fluxes in the North East Atlantic ecosystem ........ 25 The Assimilation of Phytoplankton Functional Types for Operational Forecasting in the Northwest European Shelf .......................................................................................................................................... 25 Earth Observation for Management of Marine Ecosystems Resources and Natural Capital .................. 25 Deriving Ocean Monitoring Indicators over the Atlantic Ocean from the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean Colour time series ..................................................................... 26 New statistics to bridge temporal and spatial scales of biological production in the ocean .................... 26 Marine Biogeochemistry and Bio-optics along the Irish continental shelf ............................................... 26 Session A4 Safety and Security of Maritime Transport and Port Development ........................................... 27 Challenges for Maritime Traffic Monitoring within the North Atlantic and Arctic – How can Space Technology provide solutions ? ................................................................................................................. 27 Vessel Monitoring Based on Dual-Polarization Sar Images and Ais Data ................................................. 28 Potential of Sentinel-2 to monitor Arctic sea ice ...................................................................................... 28 Session S3 Atmospheric Dynamics, Transport and Energy exchange ........................................................... 28 The Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS): Contributing to our understanding of air/sea exchange in the Atlantic ............................................................................................................................ 28 Changing Air-Sea Freshwater Fluxes and Ocean Salinity: From Wet gets Wetter to the Big Fresh Blob . 29 Use of Satellite Data to Support Ocean Wind and Wave Forecasting - A Review .................................... 29 Session A5 Protecting the Ocean .................................................................................................................. 29 Measuring Marine Litter and Microplastics .............................................................................................. 30 Optical Methods for Marine Litter Detection (OPTIMAL): From User Requirements to Roadmap Design for Marine Plastic Detection System ......................................................................................................... 30 Observational Limitations for Marine Litter Monitoring: Earth Observation to the Rescue .................... 30 Marine Litter Monitoring .......................................................................................................................... 32 Plastic litter detection from space: current knowledge and lessons learned from the Plastic Litter Project 2018 .............................................................................................................................................