© Fugro Million Hours of Real-Time Data and Counting Philip Bishop MetOcean Scientist Fugro EMU Limited 12 th November Tel:

© Fugro 2013 What Do Fugro EMU Do?  Fugro EMU Limited is now the largest commercial marine environmental services organisation in the UK  Marine consultancy, survey and laboratory testing specialist  Provides a worldwide service in support of infrastructure planning, consenting and development, environmental protection and resource management

© Fugro 2013 National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes  Fugro EMU maintains the NE, NW, SE and SW hydrodynamics contracts  Purpose: - Coastal process monitoring - Strategic shoreline management plans - Coastal defence strategies and operational management - Flood defence

© Fugro UK Coastal Network South East Network 20 sites incorporating:  12 DWR’s  7 Tide gauges  11 Met stations  1 Aquadopp current profiler

© Fugro Example Instrumentation  Datawell waveriders: - Wave height - Wave period - Wave direction - Sea temperature

© Fugro Example Instrumentation  Vertical looking WaveRadar Rex: - Wave height - Tide height  Etrometa Stepgauge: - Wave height - Tide height

© Fugro Example Instrumentation  Obsermet meteorological station: - Wind speed & direction - Humidity - Barometric pressure - Temperature - Rainfall

© Fugro 2013  Wave, tide and meteorological data are collected and telemetered in real-time to and in turn monitored in real-time using our in-house monitoring system; BuoyWatch  Systems developed to provide data at 1 Hz which can be available within 5 seconds of the observation Real-Time Data Acquisition

© Fugro Real-Time 24 Hour Monitoring - Website  Available to the public

© Fugro 2013  Good sites = green  Suspect data sites = amber  Bad site/no data = red Real-Time 24 Hour Monitoring - BuoyWatch

© Fugro 2013  Blue lines = wave intensity and direction  Green lines = wind Real-Time 24 Hour Monitoring

© Fugro 2013  9,510,360 Wave, tide and meteorological data records since 2003 How Much Real-Time Data?  3, 301,044 Hours of data has been uploaded in real-time for the National Network of Regional Coastal Monitoring Programmes  65% for the Southeast Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme –2,026,896 Hours of data

© Fugro 2013 And counting.....

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