WaveSentry-an information tool for managing risk of marine operations in adverse sea states

WaveSentry -开发一种新的信息和预报工具，用于管理不利海况下的海上作业风险（部分资金由技术战略委员会提供）。出于经济和安全的原因，海上作业依赖于关于海况（波高、周期、方向、陡度）的高质量信息。目前，可用的信息是以大气和海洋模型为基础的，新一代的集合输出正在出现。WaveSentry旨在利用新的数据来源，包括新的波陡度卫星远程测量以及实时浮标和船舶数据，以评价这种集合预报，该项目将开发和应用各种技术，大大加强各种数据来源的整合，以便向多个最终用户市场提供改进的不利海况数据。一个示范系统将在英吉利海峡运行，作为可能在地球仪任何地方部署的一个例子。

WaveSentry - Developing a new information and forecasting tool for managing the risks of marine operations in adverse sea states (part funded by the Technology Strategy Board).Marine operations are dependent on high quality information on sea-state (wave height, period, direction, steepness) for reasons of economics and safety. At present, available information is based on atmospheric and ocean models with a new generation of ensemble outputs becoming available. WaveSentry aims to exploit new data sources, including novel satellite remote measurements of wave steepness as well as real-time buoy and ship data, in order to evaluate such ensemble forecasts.The project will develop and apply techniques to substantially enhance the integration of diverse data sources in order to offer improved adverse sea-state data to multiple end-user markets. A demonstration system will operate in the English Channel as an example of a potential deployment anywhere across the globe.