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26 st / March 2015 www.sea-technology.com be released in 2017. Organizations, particularly SMEs, interested in learn- ing more about the development of the FAST services are encouraged to make contact with the team via the project website. One of the benefts to potential end-users from participating in service development is access to cutting-edge techniques that can provide advan- tages in terms of cost reductions and effciency due to improvements in data gathering and decision making. Over- all, these benefts should be passed on to citizens as increased value for money and improved safety and well- being. In the near future, growth in the availability of EO data is going to be exponential. Thus, the only potential limit on the vast capacity of Coperni- cus to stimulate knowledge-based ser- vices in coastal zones is the ingenuity of the global ocean community. Acknowledgments We'd like to acknowledge the FAST project team for contributions to the conception and writing of this article: Deltares—Mindert de Vries, Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Myra van der Meu- len, Gerben de Boer, Gerrit Hendrik- sen, Kymo Slager, Rens van den Bergh, Monica Altamirano; GeoEcoMar— Adrian Stanica, Adriana Constanti- nescu, Costin Ungureanu; University of Cádiz—Gloria Peralta, Javier Bena- vente, Fernando Brun, Jose Sanchez, Julio Segundo, Jose Ruiz; Cambridge University—Iris Möller, Tom Spencer, Ben Evans; Specto Natura—Geoff Smith; and NIOZ—Tjeerd Bouma, Bas Oteman. The research leading to these results has received funding from the Europe- an Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agree- ment n° 607131. All views presented are those of the authors. The EU is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein. References For a list of references, contact Ed- ward Morris at edward.morris@uca. es. n Dr. Edward P. Morris received his Ph.D. in ocean- ography and marine biology from the University of Groningen in 2005. His research interests include the interaction of coastal vegetation with hydrody- namics and Earth observation. Since 2014, he has been employed as a post-doc in the EU-FP7 project "Foreshore Assessment Using Space Technology" at the University of Cádiz, Spain. Dr. Jesus Gomez-Enri is an associate lecturer at the University of Cádiz, Spain, where he received his Ph.D. in marine sciences in 2002. His main re- search interest is satellite oceanography in coastal areas using radar altimetry and synthetic aperture radar. Dr. Daphne van der Wal is a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Yerseke, Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. in physical ge- ography from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. Her research interests include the use of remote sensing and GIS to understand coastal estuarine ecology and morphology. & LINEAR For mor building amplifiers to drive reactive loads. (858) 571-1111 FAX (858) 571-0188 info@instrumentsinc.com Copyright 2015 M o d e l S 1 6 - 2 0 A A 2 0 % d u t y 3 5 x 3 1 . 5 x 3 5 . 5 i n c h e s ; 9 8 5 l b s . i s i t o u r . i n s t r u m e n t s i n c . c o m 7 2 6 3 E n g i n e e r R d . , S a n D i e g o , C A 9 2 1 1 1 - 1 4 9 3 ( 8 5 8 ) 5 7 1 - 1 1 1 1 F A X ( 8 5 8 ) 5 7 1 - 0 1 8 8 i n f o @ i n s t r u m e n t s i n c . c o m "One of the benefts to potential end-users from participating in service development is access to cutting-edge techniques."