The backbone of the ICEMON service system is the existing institutions that provide operational oceanography services in high latitudes

Research and development work to support and upgrade the services will be conducted to build the capacity to retrieve quantitative information from new satellite data, improve modeling and forecasting skills, and for utilization of state-of-the-art information technologies, communication and end user systems.

The services will mainly be public services that should be free-of-charge as far as possible. In addition, commercial services will be offered to users such as offshore industry which require more extensive services than the public services.

Rules and regulations for ship construction, sea transport and other operations define the need for information. This requires monitoring of met-ice-ocean variables on global scale

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The Arctic environment is very vulnerable, and pollution, conservation of flora and fauna, climate change impact on ecosystems are areas where small disturbances can have very long-lasting impact

Monitoring services are needed to detect changes in the environment on short and long time scale, and to support human activities to minimize the risk for negative impact on the environment

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Global climate change is on the political agenda. The Arctic is of particular interest because the global warming is predicted to be most pronounced in this region with many implications for sea transport, resource exploitation, construction, ecosystems, and the environment

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Oil and gas exploration as well as marine transportation and ship traffic in the Arctic and surrounding seas will require significant improvement in ice services in coordination with existing met-ocean services
It is of public interest that these activities take place with a minimum risk for accidents and damage to the environment

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