The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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The western Mediterranean Sea has a variety of features that can be used to optimise ship routing. Part of the challenge is to extract high-level features of interest such as water-type boundary fronts and significant currents of interest for a particular ship voyage. This image shows sea-surface temperature overlaid with Globcurrent streamlines. The white broken line shows the planned passage of a ship that takes advantage of ocean-surface currents.