In 2014, FMCN developed, with resources from The Walton Family Foundation and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Monitoreo Noroeste platform, a public portal containing metadata from monitoring databases in the Gulf of California and the North Pacific. In 2020, again, with the support of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and its own resources, the expansion of the platform formerly known as Monitoreo Noroeste to the Yucatan Peninsula began within the
Infocéanos project. The metadata from the marine-coastal monitoring and research databases will be integrated into the
Marine-Coastal Information and Analysis System (SIMAR), developed by the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO, acronym in Spanish).
In parallel, FMCN collaborates with CONABIO in monitoring the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). Between 2016 and 2017, the distribution and growth rates of red mangrove in five sites in northwestern Mexico were delineated using remote sensing techniques with support from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
As of 2020, FMCN and CONABIO are working to extrapolate the remote sensing methodology for R. mangle in the Yucatan Peninsula.
The lines of work that guide the actions of the Marine-Coastal Monitoring project are:
- Development of a marine and coastal monitoring platform.
- Generation of information on the coverage and distribution of red mangrove in northwestern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula.
- Diagnosis of aquaculture in Mexico for the identification of lines of action towards sustainability.