Autonomous Surface Vehicles Network Initiative in support to EOOS

The European Ocean Observing System (EOOS) is a coordinating framework designed to align and integrate Europe's ocean-observing capacity, promote a systematic and collaborative approach to collecting information on the state and variability of our seas, and underpin sustainable management of the marine environment and its resources. Within the framework of EOOS is EuroSea, an EU-project with the overall goal to consolidate a more integrated interdisciplinary ocean observing system able to deliver essential information for the wellbeing, blue growth and sustainable management of the ocean, based on the implementation and coordination of the different observing networks above-mentioned, being the Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USV) technology one main novelty as network initiative aiming to engage existing and forthcoming actors from public and private sector, to set and coordinate efforts to establish a recognized international network under common regulatory framework, best practices and standard operational procedures.