ICEMON Users

ICEMON is driven by demands both from policies and regulations, as well as users who have operational requirements for met-ice-ocean services.
Users can be roughly divided into end user organizations and operational users. More than 75% of the end user organizations could be reached through the ICEMON consortium. The ICEMON global user needs directory has divided the end user organizations into international, regional and national segments.

Markku Mylly, Director, Shipping Division Finnish Maritime Administration

For the icebreaker assistance and operations in the Northern Baltic and Finnish waters we are dependent on good, reliable and up-to-date ice information based on satellite data. This service is used daily during the winter season in order to perform planning, operations and management of winter traffic with high quality. For us it is also important that such services are further developed to give better quality, accuracy and more real time images to meet the future challenges with growing traffic density in the Baltic Sea areas.

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Dr. Carl Arne Carlsen, Senior Vice President, Head of DNV Research

We have agreed to participate in the program of the European Space Agency that will allow us and our customers to evaluate the usefullness of receiving satellite observations of the ice-metocean parameters for ships and offshore structures. Use of the Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) methodology in rule development and the gradually adopted 1st principle approaches requires more accurate data where uncertainties involved need to be specified. The information which is expected to be provided by the ICEMON project is of great importance.

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