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Signature ADCPs used in offshore wind site surveys
Irish company Green Rebel specializes in collecting geophysical and metocean data in areas slated to become wind farms. Their floating Lidar buoys,…
Achieving precise cable-laying for offshore wind farms with a vessel-mounted ADCP
Safely and accurately laying subsea power cables is essential to deliver power from offshore wind turbines to the power grid on shore. Belgian…
Safely collecting ocean current data near active volcanoes with a USV
The use of Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USVs) in dangerous or challenging environments is becoming an increasingly common practice as the capabilities…
Why accurate data on speed through water is essential for sub-seabed survey vessels
Find out how oceanographic data from the vessel-mounted VM Operations ADCP helps surveyors map the sub-seabed for a new offshore wind farm…
Gathering current and wave data for coastal protection engineering in the Maldives
Find out how a marine consultancy relied on Nortek ADCPs for preliminary surveys of a lagoon in the Maldives ahead of the design and construction of…
Exploring Mediterranean Sea waters with a state-of-the-art combined current profiler and echosounder
A test deployment in the Mediterranean shows how the Signature 100 current profiler – with dedicated echosounder functionality – provides…
Measuring the erosive force of infragravity waves with ADCPs
As sea levels continue to rise and storms intensify, coastal erosion is becoming increasingly problematic for many nations across the world. This…
Improving metocean forecasts with wave and current data from an extreme ocean environment
The perilous Lofoten Maelstrom is infamous for its extreme currents, which have put seafarers in grave danger and caused shipwrecks down through the…
Improved metocean data accuracy with a buoy-mounted ADCP
The collection of wave height and period, sea level and meteorological data on metocean buoys has been a vital part of the researcher’s and…
Using a versatile vessel-mounted ADCP to obtain high-resolution current data in estuarine and near-shore environments
The Signature 250 is the lowest available frequency of the Nortek's Signature VM Coastal series (250 kHz). Designed to sample in depths of up to 200…
Performance evaluation of an ADCP combined with a scientific echosounder
Echosounders are widely used to quantify fish behavior, fish stocks and zooplankton biomass. Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers have also been used…
Deploying a vessel-mounted ADCP on a USV to survey currents in a complex river environment
If a river crossing can be mapped using a USV instead of field personnel, then the risk to life is considerably reduced. Ultrabeam Hydrographic…
