Development of a Self-Contained, Satellite Based, Moored Surface Buoy Position Tracking Device

Clifford R. Merz; Robert H. Weisberg; Patrick A. Smith; Jason A. Law; Jeff Donovan; Graham M. Tilbury; Chad Lembke; Douglass Myhre

doi:10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449363

Development of a Self-Contained, Satellite Based, Moored Surface Buoy Position Tracking Device

Clifford R. Merz, Robert H. Weisberg, Patrick A. Smith, Jason A. Law, Jeff Donovan, Graham M. Tilbury, Chad Lembke, Douglass Myhre

University of South Florida

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In an effort to improve our understandings on the workings of the coastal ocean for a variety of environmental applications and to improve upon forecasts of storm surge for residents along the West Coast of Florida, the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science (USF/CMS) established a real-time Coastal Ocean Monitoring Prediction System (CONIPS) for the West Florida Shelf region. COMPS program assets consist of arrays of offshore buoys and coastal tidal stations for surface meteorology and in-water measurement of temperature, salinity, and currents. This instrumentation array reflects a substantial investment in equipment and effort. Although rare, conditions can arise in which the bottom moored offshore surface buoys can separate and drift freely. To prevent platform and equipment loss, several onboard methods have been used to determine and track the buoy's position when necessary. This paper discusses the in-house development of a self-contained, satellite-based, moored surface buoy position tracking device.

Original language	American English
Journal	OCEANS 2007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449363
State	Published - Sep 1 2007

Keywords

ocean temperature
oceanographic equipment
storms
moored surface buoy position tracking device
coastal ocean
environmental applications
storm surge forecasts
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science
Coastal Ocean Monitoring Prediction System
West Florida Shelf region
coastal tidal stations
surface meteorology
ocean temperature measurement
ocean salinity measurement
ocean current measurement
Satellites
Ocean temperature
Sea surface
Sea measurements
Temperature measurement
Storms
Surges
Educational institutions
Collision mitigation
Real time systems

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Development of a Self-Contained, Satellite Based, Moored Surface Buoy Position Tracking Device

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