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The quality of marine environment has a vital importance for the sustainable future of the Earth. On the other hand, the human activities, the sea commerce and transportation, affect significantly the marine environment especially in coastal areas, port areas, and the sea corridors. These induced activities impose contiguous and accurate methods for marine environment monitoring. Nowadays, modern satellite instruments gather data and the relative products derived from them can be used as an alternative, robust, and accurate way to monitor many basic marine parameters such as chlorophyll, sea surface temperature (SST), euphotic depth, dissolved organic matter and examine their long-term (climatic) tendencies. This study comprises an effort to assess the accuracy of satellite products, comparing them with relative ground-based measurements and it also focuses on provision of satellite-based mean variations on monthly basis regarding two important marine parameters (Chlorophyll-a and SST). In this study, available measurements of two different ports are used, i.e., the port of Bar in Montenegro and the port of Burgas in Bulgaria, which are partners of Transnational ENhancement of ECOPORT8 network (TEN ECOPORT) project.
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The authors would like to thank the Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro (BIOKOTOR), and the Port Authority of Burgas for providing measurements and data. This study is supported by the “Transnational ENhancement of ECOPORT8 network” (TEN ECOPORT) project with code SEE/D/0189/2.2/X, cofinanced by the European Union within the South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme.
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Kolios, S., Stylios, C. (2015). Coastal Marine Environment Monitoring Using Satellite Data Derived from MODIS Instrument. In: Stylios, C., Floqi, T., Marinski, J., Damiani, L. (eds) Sustainable Development of Sea-Corridors and Coastal Waters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11385-2_14
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