EurOCEAN 2000 - Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

publications to be produced will introduce a new strategy to study physical-biological
couplings and thus create markets for the MITEC profiler.
The links between industry (SME’s) and academic research are strengthened in order to
improve technology transfer and ensure effective and continuing industrial exploitation of the
results of MAST funded research. The development of such technologies will promote
ecosystem research. It will also contribute to the understanding of bio-geochemical fluxes, the
influence of small-scale physical processes on the dynamics of marine ecosystems, the impact
of climatic change on atmosphere-sea exchange processes and the study of the dynamic
properties of coastal systems.
After the partial successful completion of the project there is a precompetitive prototype
available, which will form the base for a forthcoming project, to qualify the system for
industrial production (possibly within EUREKA/EUROMAR).
MITEC provides a new and advanced tool for observations and flux studies in the near surface
layer. This tool will help to improve the understanding of the processes in the near surface
layer. This will benefit both marine science itself as well as the application of Remote Sensing
in the marine environment, by improving the quality of the Remote Sensing derived data
products of the marine environment. The European value-added industry will make use of the
results to enhance its products and services to governments, marine research institutions and
the marine-related industry.
MITEC is expected to support and stimulate research activities in aquatic systems including
international marine programmes such as WOCE, JGOFS, GOOS, ELOISE and international
lacustrine programmes such as EROS (Black Sea), ALPE (European Program on Alpine lakes),
IDEAL (East African Lakes) and BICER (Baikal International Center for Ecological
Research).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
The present project description results from contributions and the collaboration of all scientists
of the MAST-III project MITEC, but especially valuable were the contributions of Dr. Hartmut
Prandke and Dr. Kurt Holtsch.
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