Overview
The Remote Sensing Unit (RSU) at ROPME has been established in 1996 in accordance with the ROPME Council Decision taken during the Ninth Council of Ministers Meeting which held in Kuwait in the same year.
The Unit was especially established for the purpose of utilization of remote sensing data for near-real time marine environmental monitoring of coastal hazards and assessment of the state of the marine and coastal environments in the ROPME Sea Area.
The main task of the RSU is, therefore, to process, analyze and archive received MODIS and other available satellite data for routine assessment of coastal water quality and early warning of the risks of harmful algal blooms (HABs), dust storms and oil spills in the ROPME Sea Area.