Webinar: Innovative services to monitor the spatial distribution of human activities, 2 February 2018, 11am CET

Training course

In the context of the Blue Growth strategy, the need for services that collect and combine Environmental Observation (EO) data with aquaculture data has been identified by the EU. In this context, fundamental services are needed to monitor the spatial distribution of human activities including aquaculture and fishing, allowing for performance analysis based on environmental and socio-economic indicators. This webinar highlights VREs that support a computing intensive ontology driven feature analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multispectral optical imagery (using Sentinel-1 and -2 data, and Very High Resolution optical imagery), where the results are displayed on maps for human reviewers. The first VRE is specialised in recognizing offshore fish farming in Greece, whilst the second is specialized in identifying coastal aquaculture ponds in Indonesia. 

Webinar: The Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries, 25 January 2018, 3pm CET

Training course

GRSF is designed to handle the information on stock monitoring that countries perform directly or through the Regional Fishery Bodies (RFBs). GRSF contributes to enhance the global monitoring by i) collating records from either national or regional sources, ii) organizing and storing stock information according to specific data standards and protocols which allow comparability between records and consistency of the database, and iii) assigning and publishing Global Unique Identifier for single stock standard identification. 

Webinar: "Managing tuna fisheries data at a global scale: the Tuna Atlas VRE" presentation and recording now available!

Training course

On 18th January 2018, 3pm CET BlueBRIDGE hosted the webinar: "Managing tuna fisheries data at a global scale: the Tuna Atlas VRE" that presented how, through the Tuna Atlas VRE, users can easily produce their own datasets of fisheries at regional, multi-regional or global scale, and how they can share these datasets in ways that allow other users to access, process and visualise them efficiently. 

Webinar "New generation tools for Aquaculture"

Training course

On 22 November 2017, 12:00pm CET BlueBRIDGE organised a webinar on "New Generation Tools for Aquaculture". The webinar focused on the BlueBRIDGE tools that aquaculture producers can use to estimate the performance of their production exploiting state of the art Machine Learning methods based on the real historical production data. 

A web-application to understand ecologically important seafloor features in Marine Protected Areas, 9 November 2017, 4pm CET

Training course

On 9 November 2017, 4:00pm CET the Protected Area Impact Maps VRE was introduced in a webinar (Click here for more information). This BlueBRIDGE web-application is used to visualise and report on MPA coverage of ecologically important seafloor features in Marine Protected Areas.

BlueBRIDGE webinar: Semantic Integration of Marine Data, 28 June 2017, 11.10am CEST

Training course

BlueBRIDGE organized a webinar on 28 June 2017, 11.10am CEST, with the aim to highlight the importance of a semantic integration of data, the current approaches for integration and the main case studies of marine data coming from the BlueBRIDGE project. It showcased a process to construct semantic warehouse of marine data and how it can be exploited. 

Introduction to Stock Assessment, 6-9 June 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

Training course

ICES training course "Introduction to stock assessment" will be taking place this coming June, assisted with the use of the BlueBRIDGE VREs.
This course provides instruction, demonstration, and exercises in population modelling as applied to fishery resources ​

ICES methods for setting proxy MSY reference points for stocks in categories 3 and 4 - Part II, 14-15 February 2017

Training course

The objective of this course was to enable stock assessors and users of ICES advice to understand the underlying principles of each method, the required data and format, as well as how to run the code and interpret the results for use in ICES advice.

ICES methods for setting proxy MSY reference points for stocks in categories 3 and 4, 25-26 January 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

Training course

ICES training course on "ICES methods for setting proxy MSY reference points for stocks in categories 3 and 4" took place on January 25-26 in Copenhagen, Denmark, assisted with the use of the BlueBRIDGE VREs. 18 participants attended the event. 

ICES announcing the upcoming training courses supported by BlueBRIDGE

18/Dec/2016

The ICES December newsletter announces the two-part course on proxy MSY reference points that will be held in January and February to kick off the 2017 training programme.