The Regional Marine Centre at University of Ghana, is implementing the Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa project under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security & Africa (GMES & Africa) programme. The GMES project utilised EO and satellite technologies to generate critical products and information services for socioeconomic development of African people as well as sustainable environmental management. It is a continuation of the MESA program. The Marine and Coastal Areas Management in Western Africa Action is one of the six sub-regional programmes being carried out under GMES & AFRICA, with the mandate of addressing coastal and marine management issues in West Africa. The products and services have been extended to 5: (1) Provision of potential fishing zone charts overlaid with vessel traffic; (2) Monitoring and forecasting oceanographic variables; (3) Forecast of ocean conditions disseminated as SMS alerts,
(4) Generate coastal vulnerability indices and (5) Mapping of coastal ecosystem / habitats.
