Maritime Safety and Rescue Emergency Response Tools & EDS

Several European Coastguards in charge of Search and Rescue (SAR), marine pollution prevention and response relies on RPS Ocean Science emergency response tools (OILMAP, SARMAP, CHEMMAP) to fulfil its mission. For more than 15 years, RPS has customized its modelling tools to adapt to custom mission critical requirements, to search and rescue missing people at sea and to respond to oil spill incidents in European waters. To effectively deploy assets at sea to respond to marine emergencies, RPS has been supporting several European Coastguards with training and software development, and by implementing RPS’ Environmental Data Server (EDS) in charge of collecting a large array of environmental datasets and distributing it to Several Maritime Rescue Coordination operators. 

To ensure the operational readiness of responders, RPS assisted several Coastguards in developing on-line training material for various locations covering both scientific and technical concepts of SAR, oil, and HNS pollution response. By implementing EDS, responders have access to near-real-time access to an array of winds and current, both observations (drifters, HF Radar, offshore moorings) and predictions at global, regional and local scales.