PMAR - Pressure models for MARine activities

PMAR is a software package for the modelling of anthropogenic pressures caused by human activities at sea.

Pressures are substances which act as tracers and cause negative impacts when released in the marine environment. This may include marine litter, oil or other hazardous substances, chemicals, organic matter, etc.

Human activities such as maritime transport, fishing, oil & gas extraction, aquaculture, and more, can cause the release of such substances, thus becoming pressure sources.

PMAR is open source and is programmed in Python. Particle trajectories are modelled using OpenDrift.

Installation

To install PMAR, you can use either conda or pip. Make sure you have Conda or pip installed on your system.

Using conda:

conda create -n pmar-env python=3.9
conda activate pmar-env
conda install -c conda-forge opendrift rioxarray geocube
pip install git+https://github.com/CNR-ISMAR/pmar.git

Using pip only (in an existing environment):

pip install opendrift rioxarray geocube
pip install git+https://github.com/CNR-ISMAR/pmar.git

Citation

If you use PMAR in your research, please cite the following paper:

Bosi, S., Raffaetà, A., Simeoni, M., Bobchev, N., Berov, D., Barbanti, A., & Menegon, S. (2025). PMAR: A Lagrangian approach to the modelling of anthropogenic pressures for marine management. Environmental Modelling & Software, 106822. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106822

BibTeX:

@article{bosi2025pmar,
  title={PMAR: A Lagrangian approach to the modelling of anthropogenic pressures for marine management},
  author={Bosi, Sofia and Raffaet{\`a}, Alessandra and Simeoni, Marta and Bobchev, Nikola and Berov, Dimitar and Barbanti, Andrea and Menegon, Stefano},
  journal={Environmental Modelling \& Software},
  pages={106822},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106822}
}