What is HARSAT

HARSAT (Harmonised Regional Seas Assessment Tool), is a tool that is applied by The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) and the OSPAR Commission (OSPAR) for the assessment of data concerning contaminants (hazardous substances) and their effects in the marine environment.

HARSAT code includes tools for pre-processing data, statistical trend analysis and comparison with threshold values, and post-processing for archiving and reporting.

HARSAT is developed in statistical computing language R. R is available for most operating systems and can be downloaded from the R-project website.