Platform
Every site receives environmental context from multiple integrated sources
When you create a monitoring site in MariMap, environmental data starts flowing automatically. Sea surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration, land use context, and more. No manual downloads, no GIS expertise required.
Overview
Environmental context without the manual work
Understanding what is happening at a monitoring site requires more than field survey data alone. Sea surface temperature anomalies can explain bleaching events. Chlorophyll concentrations indicate nutrient loading and productivity. Land cover changes upstream affect sediment and pollutant inputs. Species occurrence records from global databases provide baseline biodiversity context.
Traditionally, accessing these data sources requires downloading files from multiple portals, reprojecting spatial data, extracting values for your specific locations, and reformatting everything to work with your analysis tools. This process takes hours per site and needs to be repeated whenever new data becomes available.
MariMap automates this entire pipeline. When you define a monitoring site, the platform begins pulling relevant environmental variables from multiple integrated data sources. Data arrives on schedules ranging from daily to quarterly, depending on the source. Values are extracted for your exact site location and stored alongside your field survey data, ready for analysis and reporting.
multiple integrated data sources
CMEMS
DailyThe Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service provides daily sea surface temperature, salinity, ocean current velocity, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll-a concentration. Data is extracted from global ocean reanalysis products at your site coordinates, giving you physical and biogeochemical ocean state variables updated every day.
NOAA Coral Reef Watch
WeeklyNOAA Coral Reef Watch delivers weekly degree heating weeks (DHW), bleaching alert levels, sea surface temperature anomalies, and hotspot indicators. These thermal stress metrics are the global standard for predicting and documenting coral bleaching events. Alert levels map directly to expected bleaching severity.
Google Earth Engine
On-demand (in development)Access satellite imagery and geospatial datasets through Google Earth Engine. Derive vegetation indices for coastal habitat analysis and run cloud-based processing on multi-temporal image stacks. Google Earth Engine integration is currently in development.
Sentinel-2
5-day revisitSentinel-2 provides high-resolution multispectral imagery from the European Copernicus programme, supporting shallow-water bathymetry estimates, coastline change detection, and habitat mapping across MariMap survey sites.
GHSL (Global Human Settlement Layer)
MonthlyPopulation density and built-up area estimates from the European Commission's Global Human Settlement Layer provide human pressure context for coastal monitoring sites. Understand development trends, population growth near reef systems, and urbanization patterns that correlate with water quality changes.
CLMS (Copernicus Land Monitoring)
MonthlyLand cover classification and vegetation indices from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service identify upstream land use patterns that affect marine environments. Track deforestation, agricultural expansion, and wetland loss in coastal catchments that influence sediment and nutrient runoff to your monitoring sites.
WoRMS
QuarterlyThe World Register of Marine Species provides the authoritative taxonomic backbone for all species records in MariMap. Taxonomy validation runs against the WoRMS database during data entry, ensuring species names are current and correctly classified. Synonyms and name changes are handled automatically.
H3 Spatial Indexing
Built-inH3 is a hierarchical spatial indexing system that provides multi-resolution hexagonal grid cells for aggregating and comparing data across sites. H3 enables consistent spatial analysis at scales from individual reef patches to regional assessments, with each grid cell carrying aggregated environmental and survey indicators.
OBIS
Continuously updatedOBIS is a global open-access repository of marine species occurrence data coordinated by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. MariMap references OBIS records to cross-check species ranges and add regional biodiversity context to survey observations.
IUCN Red List
Periodically updatedThe IUCN Red List is the world's most comprehensive inventory of global species conservation status. MariMap uses IUCN Red List categories to flag threatened species observed during surveys and highlight conservation priorities at each site.
How auto-integration works
Define your site
Create a monitoring site by drawing a boundary or dropping a pin on the map. Set the site's ecosystem type, depth range, and monitoring objectives. That is all you need to do.
Data flows automatically
MariMap begins requesting data from all relevant sources for your site coordinates. Daily, weekly, and monthly variables arrive on schedule. No API keys, no downloads, no GIS software required.
Analyze in context
View environmental variables alongside your field survey data in dashboards, reports, and exports. Overlay sea surface temperature trends on coral cover time series. Compare bleaching alerts with your bleaching assessment survey results. Export integrated datasets for external analysis.
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