Measurements

• Current meters: Both single point moored current meters and Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) are available. A single ADCP is capable of measuring the current profile over a vertical extent of some 500 m. All moored current meters are equipped with internal logging  allowing extended unattended operation. Current measurements can also be made attached to a SEAWATCH buoy, as part of a multi-parameter data collection campaign.
• Surface drifters: Typically used for mapping the surface currents in an area and for the tracking of oil spills.
• Metocean data buoys: We operate one of the largest fleets in the world of data buoys designed for deep ocean, extreme wave and current conditions. Both meteorological, ocean wave (including wave direction), current, sea temperature and salinity data can be collected. We offer both the WAVESCAN and the SEAWATCH buoys and advise the customer as to the most appropriate system according to the location and the customer requirements. The Seawatch buoy can also be equipped with various other environmental sensors (see below). Data are, as a standard, stored on the buoy. In addition, data can be transmitted by satellite or radio link for operational and for system monitoring purposes. Smaller buoys, such as Directional Waveriders, are also available if only wave data are required.
• Temperature and salinity sensors: These parameters are also recorded by the current meters, or using a CTD string or a standard CTD.
• Pressure sensors: Measurement of sea elevation and ocean waves from bottom mounted instruments in shallow water.
• Meteorological sensors: Available mounted both to buoys, offshore platforms and on the coast.

The metocean measurement services is operated through the Fugro oceanographic business line, in co-operation with Fugro GEOS and more information may be found here.

Consultancy

Most instrumentation has its own self-contained data analysis software; for example, directional wave analysis is standard on our wave data buoys allowing directional spectra to be available in real time. Further, the data retrieved from the on-board storage are routinely analysed and quality controlled by our team of experienced meteorologists and oceanographers. A flexible data analysis and presentation system is used and both measured data and data from the analysis can be supplied in a number of formats, depending on the users requirements. The data are further provided to the customers with a standard data report in which the data are presented both as time series plots and summary statistics. In addition, extreme value analysis, harmonic constants, data interpretation etc. can be incorporated. with our unique global wave and wind data sets from satellites and models.

Fugro OCEANOR has also carried out more specialised studies for the offshore and other maritime industries based on the collected data and other data sources. Examples of such work include studies of wave kinematics and asymmetry, joint probability studies, studies of physical processes, model and instrument validation etc. Fugro OCEANOR is also actively integrating satellite data with measured and global wave model data to give additional information on the temporal and spatial variability of the metocean conditions in a region. Representativity of a measured series with respect to the longer term can easily be assessed using these data. Two examples of wave climate products are, first, World Wave Atlas (http://www.oceanor.com/products/wwa.htm), which makes global satellite and model data easily available to customers worldwide as a series of wave and wind climate atlases for any country, and, secondly, WorldWaves (http://www.oceanor.com/products/WorldWaves.htm), which is the first of a new generation of coastal wave atlases.