Developed by the Portuguese Environment Agency, the COSMO Program is founded on a holistic and integrated approach to coastal monitoring, ensuring systematic and standardized data acquisition along the mainland Portugal coastline, encompassing beaches, dunes, nearshore seabeds, and sea cliffs.
Operational since 2018, this monitoring program aims to generate high-quality geospatial data to enhance understanding of the morphological dynamics of beaches, dunes, and sea cliffs.
Data collection campaigns are conducted using aerial, terrestrial, and maritime platforms at predefined locations, focusing on areas of heightened vulnerability and risk to people and assets.
The acquired datasets are processed and analyzed by specialists in topographic engineering, geospatial engineering, hydrography, coastal geology, and geotechnics.
The surveys’ products are available as geodata and are freely available to registered users on this platform.