1. Development of a Whitecap Measurement System Development of a Whitecap Measurement System By Garry Higgins

2. Project Overview / Recap

3. Why measures whitecaps? What’s involved? Project Overview / Recap

4. Work Done So Far

5. Software MatLab ◦Getting to grips ◦What the program needs to do ◦What it does so far

6. MatLab Image Processing

7. MatLab Code

8. Hardware

9. Cameras Original idea to use high quality digital camera CCTV Cameras Waterproof housing Camera testing

10. PC Dedicated Windows PC PCI card for CCTV capture Camera Software: ◦Allows use of multiple cameras simultaneously ◦Scheduling ◦Outputs to avi video file

11. What next?

12. Software Point selection Automatic determination of correct threshold Determine thresholds for all images in directory Convert MatLab code to C

13. Hardware Install card in PC Set up Software Configure Cameras Set up remote access?

14. Mace Head Bring PC and cameras to Mace Head Set up cameras on tower Connect to PC in nearby building

15. Questions ?