French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOM)

Shom, a public administrative institution under the supervision of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, is the heir to the oldest official hydrographic service in the world, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine, created on 19 November 1720. Its miss… Read more »

French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer)

The French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) builds global scale sea ice concentration maps from SSM/I at 12.5 km grid resolution and also motion maps from the optimal combination of scatterometer and radiometer data at 62 km res… Read more »