Satellite Observing Systems

Satellite observing systems are unrivalled in expertise in all aspects of satellite remote sensing of the marine environment. Serving the public and private sector organisations by providing:

A Range of Services

The telecom industry has seen many changes over the last few years, not least the increasing popularity of freephone 0800 numbers and other numbers specifically designed for business use.

As telecom prices have become more competitive, companies have had to offer better and more extensive phone services to both the personal and the business user.

Features such as caller display and call barring are now easily obtained, making it easier to connect with families and friends, and avoid people you do not want to take calls from.

You can have messages easily diverted to your mobile and have messages delivered to a callbox, making sure that you do not miss important phone calls. You can also track your phone bills much more easily, often online, and you can easily see what has pushed up your bill in any given month. You can even see who made the call!

Other services often available include conference calls, so that you can connect to two or more people, and dual numbers on one line. If you live in a shared household or want to stop the kids from using the phone you can even block outgoing calls.

Whatever the range of services you need, you are sure to find it from one of the major telecom companies and this will make your life – and communication – easier.

  • Consultancy on the applications and exploitation of marine remote sensing,
  • High quality marine statistics and climatology,
  • Real-time sea-state monitoring from space delivered to ships at sea,
  • Training programmes world-wide.

Some of the problem areas recently tackled by us including ongoing programmes, are:

  • Calibration of radar altimeters on the ERS-1, ERS-2 and ENVISAT satellites,
  • Statistical data on the occurrence of the highest wave at an offshore site or along a shipping route anywhere in the world,
  • The prevalence of oil slicks in summer off a tourist beach in the mediterranean,
  • Seasonal cycles in the vertical migration of nutrients along a coastline, and their dependence on marine weather patterns,
  • A model of sea level changes around Britain's coastline over the last decade,
  • The design of an easy-access coastal information system containing data derived from the satellite record,
  • Accessibility of environmental information of coastal zones by NATO navies,
  • Trends in global climate change revealed in the middle of the Atlantic by satellite observations repeated over a decade.

The latest venture is the design of a system of dedicated microsats that will deliver observations of storm location and intensity in 'real-time' to forecasting centres and ships at sea.

We have longer experience in the field of creating useful marine products from raw satellite data than any company in Europe, and this is reflected in the number of Training Workshops it has been asked to organise around the world.



  • We are completely current with the programmes and aspirations of all the major space agencies and we are a leading promoter of 'real-time' constellations.

  • No organisation, whose interest lies in the sea, can afford to remain ignorant of the increasingly relevant role of satellite surveillance to its operations.

waves

Several satellites measure the height of waves at the sea surface. We archive these and windspeed measurements in the database. This then used to provide high quality marine statistics and climatology.


Dockwise towing

Transporting a 33000 ton semi-submersible safely from Canada to Brazil depends critically on making the best use of whatever information is available on sea-state. We worked closely with DockTell on the project.


Sea State Alarm

The Sea State Alarm service transmits reports to ships comparing actual sea state along the satellite tracks with the forecast.


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