The WAVY littoral configuration has been demonstrated to work reliably in coastal areas, achieving very good data transmission rates for real-time applications.
There are many potential applications for this WAVY drifter! One possible application is the study of nearshore processes in beaches, with the added advantage of possibly involving citizens in the process. The combined trajectory and wave data acquisition provide invaluable data to fully describe rip and littoral drift currents, and their relation to the sea state, lenght scales, bathymetry, and other factors.
The WAVY Littoral can also be used to track river flows and assist in the study of sediment dynamics or river discharges, as demonstrated in the WAVY Test Campaign on the River Corrib (Galway, Ireland) with the assistance of the Irish Marine Institute.
Another interesting use case is the monitoring of hydrodynamic conditions at the entrance of major harbours or tracking of oil spills. In the WAVY Littoral Campaign in collaboration with SAGA Project, the WAVY drifters were deployed at the entrance of Portimão Harbour, an important fishing and local transports harbour in the southern Portuguese coast, to validate a model for a Port Management Support System.
There are many more ways the WAVY Littoral can help the ocean scientist community and the curious individual too… For those who want to study any type of coastal, nearshore or littoral process this may be the right drifter to help collect valuable data!
The MELOA team is currently deploying the WAVY drifters to validate and implement use cases! If you have a potential application for the WAVY Littoral that you would like to try out, please get in touch!
Check out the most recent WAVY Littoral Test Campaigns:
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WAVY Test Campaign on the River Corrib (Galway, Ireland) with the assistance of the Marine Institute Our partner BlueWise Marine was in Galway city (Ireland) carrying out a WAVY TestCampaign with the assistance of the Marine Institute providing valuable information to validate hydrodynamic models of the bay! The data collected is already available. Read more |
WAVY Test Campaign in Praia do Carneiro, Portugal On April 8th, our partner Instituto Hidrográfico carried out a WAVY Test Campaign on the north of the Portuguese coast, at Praia do Carneiro. Check out the WAVY trajectory in Praia do Carneiro, induced by the beach current! Read more |
WAVY Test campaign in Lir National Ocean facility in Cork, Ireland Our partner Smartbay Ireland carried out the first WAVY Test Campaign on the Irish coast. An operational experimentation campaign took place in the wide bay of Galway, Ireland, using a WAVY Littoral. Read more |
First Test Campaign on the Irish coast Our partner Smartbay Ireland carried out the first WAVY Test Campaign on the Irish coast. An operational experimentation campaign took place in the wide bay of Galway, Ireland, using a WAVY Littoral. Read more |
New test campaign takes place on the Spanish coast MELOA team performed the 2nd WAVY test campaign on the Spanish coast! 20 WAVY drifters were successfully launched from OBSEA observatory, 4km offshore! It was the first campaign with such an amount of drifters working at the same time. Read more |
