About

SIMshore aims to offer a service for the operational update of the littoral topo-bathymetry making use of all available methodologies, including those based on remote sensing of the ocean surface. Particular emphasis will be assigned to bathymetry derivation from the ocean colour as well as from inversion of the surface wave field observed at low altitude with autonomous vehicles.

The project follows a user-driven approach, as it results from innumerous requests of users for littoral bathymetry, although also from the clear identification by the partnership of the need of nearshore bathymetry for marine safety purposes. SIMshore results from cooperation between enterprises and research institutions, and involves a partnership with a reference research centre from Norway.

SIMshore partnership relies on a system developed in SIMOcean, a previous EEA granted research project designed to provide an open data system to access national marine data scattered among different departments of the Portuguese Meteorological (IPMA) and the Navy’s Hydrographic (IH) Institutes.

Mission

Provide up-to-date low cost topo-bathymetry products, that are tailored to the user needs.

Vision

To became the reference operational system for the update of topo-bathymetry products in Iberian Peninsula.

Values

Working together for a green, competitive and inclusive Europe

SIMshore project is funded by the EEA Grants support to Portugal, under the Blue Growth Innovation and SMEs (Blue Growth) program operated by the Portuguese Directorate-General for Maritime Policy of the Ministry of the Sea (DGPM). The main objective of Blue Growth is to finance enterprises to develop, apply, and commercialize innovative products and technologies. It also promotes cooperation between enterprises and research institutions, in order to foster user-driven research-based innovation.
EEA Grants derive through the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA), Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are partners in the internal market with the Member States of the European Union. To promote a continuous and balanced strengthening of economic and trade relations, the parties to the EEA Agreement have established a multi-year Financial Mechanism, known as EEA Grants. The EEA Grants aim to reduce social and economic disparities in Europe and strengthen bilateral relations between these three countries and the beneficiary countries. For the period 2014-2021, a total contribution of €2.8 billion has been agreed upon for 15 beneficiary countries. Portugal will benefit from an amount of 102.7 million euros.
Learn more at: eeagrants.gov.pt/en/

SIMshore Team

SIMshore brings together the expertise and services from the different partners to provide an operational service to update littoral topo-bathymetry derived from data fed and elaborate value-added downstream products of wide economic application.

Deimos Engenharia

Project Promoter

DEIMOS Engenharia is a private Portuguese Aerospace Engineering company, part of the Elecnor DEIMOS group, whose business is focused on space systems design and operational software systems development and validation, in the areas of Satellite Data Processing and Ground Segment Systems, Global Navigation Satellite Systems Technologies, Mission Analysis, Guidance, Navigation and Control.