Southwest Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme

''Strategic regional coastal monitoring programme for the southwest of England, to provide freely available data of consistently high quality to inform coastal management and future strategy".

The maritime Local Authorities, Coastal Groups of the southwest of England and the Environment Agency (South West Region) are working with a collective vision, to develop a long-term, region wide coastal process monitoring and analysis programme.

A specialist team has been established at the Plymouth Coastal Observatory (PCO), to manage the programme and develop the data analysis, storage and dissemination procedures. Most of the data collected by the programme will be made freely available, although some data sets provided by third parties may be restricted, for copyright reasons. Data will be made available via the map viewer and data catalogue section of the website.

PCO has been set up at University of Plymouth with the aim of establishing strong links with research communities in the South West, to provide opportunities for value added research programmes.