Integrated service for marine mine search and trajectories monitoring in Western Black Sea basin

Funded by the Copernicus Marine Service User Engagement Programme, a warning system was developed to monitor marine mine trajectories and their spreading in Romanian marine and coastal areas, as well as in the entire Western Black Sea Basin with a specific tool developed for the Romanian marine and coastal area. With a special focus on the safety navigation sector, the service is focused on simulating the drift of marine mine in the coastal zone, tracking their path and identifying their potential impact on predefined navigation sites/corridors and port areas.

This use case developed by seamod.ro and NIMRD is part of SYROCO 2025 (SYstem for ROmanian COastal monitoring), a suite of high-resolution models coupled with Parcels module and observation tools. It allows users to monitor and simulate the path of dangerous/explosive drifting marine bodies in the Romanian coastal area. The combination of these tools provides reliable estimates of local physical and hydrological/ocean variables at the sea-atmosphere interface. The service is available freely, as an on-demand web platform.

In line with EU environmental priorities such as the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the service contributes to support informed decision-making, including Marine Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) activities.