Marine information company Seaview Sensing is to supply its metocean data software to the University of Plymouth and PRIMaRE (Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy) for use in the new Wave Hub project in the South West of England.
Seaview Sensing’s core offering is a software that processes phased array HF radar data to provide real-time, met-ocean information of wave, wind and current, with a high spatial and temporal resolution and large area coverage. The software provides full directional spectra data, measuring waves at many places over an area and not just at one particular location. Seaview software calculates wave data by numerical inversion of an equation relating the radar power spectrum (the measured quantity) to the ocean wave directional spectrum (the solution of this inversion).
For this project, the software will be used to provide waves, in particular full directional spectra data, and surface currents across a field in real-time.
Such data not only helps in feasibility studies for offshore renewable energy and system design, but may also allow refinement of the application specification and aid installation, so reducing costs. The met-ocean data may also be used in operational coastal engineering applications for example, providing long-range real-time data may allow precautions to be taken as approaching storms are measured.
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