This deliverable is a “Technology outlook” for the JERICO-Design Study (J-DS) Task 2.1 that has been developed in collaboration with the scientific vision created in WP1 and provides an overview of the current status of JERICO-RI infrastructures from a national perspective and guidance on the technology design for the future JERICO-RI. The Technology outlook will provide the basis for the gap analysis performed in T2.2 and finally the roadmap for the technical design of the future JERICO-RI in T2.3.

Section 2.2 in this Deliverable summarises information given by J-DS national representatives on the technical aspects (i.e., platforms/sensors) of the national JERICO infrastructures. Inputs from nations were received through a questionnaire, elaborated with relevant J-DS and JERICO-S3 (J-S3) work packages, and filled out by nation representatives over a 3-month period in 2022. The compilation of national inputs focus on the technical aspects of the infrastructure (systems/platforms/sensors), and on questions that deal with how the JERICO-RI infrastructure should look and function in the future (5-10 years). 

Based on the information from the questionnaire, the underlying key scientific challenges (KSCs) and ongoing work within the WPs of JERICO-RI (both J-S3/J-DS), Section 4 provides a synthesis of the Technology outlook for the future operational JERICO-RI. This synthesis introduces a set of “core variables” considered to be essential to observe for the future operational JERICO-RI and the main platforms for (semi-)continuous sensors and observation that are involved. It also describes how the partners in JERICO-RI collaborate to provide high quality scientific coastal data and support coastal research and policy.