There is ongoing research to use the WaMoS Wave Monitoring System to determine the height of individual waves and to map surface currents.  Following is information about these investigations.

MaxWave

The MaxWave research project is funded by the European Community Fifth Framework Program contributing to the implementation of Key Action 3: Sustainable Marine Ecosystems within Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. The project started in December 2000 and will run for three years, involving ten major partners including:

Extreme, freak or rogue waves are those of exceptional wave height or abnormal shape which can result in damage and loss of ships and offshore structures. The cause of this type of wave, and the conditions under which they are most likely to occur are not well known. The MaxWave project aims to investigate, and gain greater understanding of such phenomena.

Within the 'MaxWave' project funded by the European Union, OceanWaveS GmbH has started the development towards the extraction of single waves from WaMoS radar images. The results aim at a better description of the sea surface, in order to understand irregularities as well in the temporal as in the spatial wave behavior.

The above described research is followed up in the nationally funded R&D project 'SinSee'. Methods to derive the sea surface elevation from radar backscatter are further developed to obtain an absolute measure of the sea surface in every point of the radar image. These scaled sea surface elevations, will be combined with acceleration and bending moments measured on board of ships.

Both projects are carried out with partners from oceanography, ship design and ship builders. That makes it highly probable that the achieved results will enter the actual ship design work.

Summary Paper of MaxWave Results, 2003

Waves and Ice

For information about OceanWaveS GmbH go to:
Sea-Image Corporation Victoria, BC  Canada  Telephone: (250) 519-0244  Fax: (250) 519-0246 Email: Email Contact