Sofar Ocean Spotter
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Thousands of Spotter buoys have already been deployed across the globe. Easily deploy your own Spotter buoy to monitor wave, wind, and water temperature, in real-time, accessible via the Spotter dashboard or API. The Spotter buoy gives you access to observational data where you need it, when you need it, at a price you can afford.
Description
Sofar Ocean operates the world’s largest connected ocean data platform. With Spotters deployed in every ocean, Sofar hardware is capable of withstanding even the harshest of conditions. By design, Spotters are compact and portable, and have been deployed from moving vessels, airplanes, research vessels, and even from paddle boards.
Sofar Spotters are used in a variety of applications including scientific and research missions, marine weather, environmental monitoring, coastal engineering, offshore energy, and many others. With a wide range of available data outputs, Spotters are the ultimate agile metocean buoy.
Available data outputs:
Wave
- Significant Wave Height
- Peak Period
- Mean Period
- Peak Direction
- Mean Direction
- Peak Directional Spread
- Mean Directional Spread
- Variance Density Spectrum
- Directional Moments (a1, b2, a2, b2)
- 3D Displacement Time Series @ 2.5 Hz (x,y,z)
Weather and Wind
- Sea Surface Temperature
- Wind Speed
- Wind Direction
- Drift Speed
- Drift Direction
- Geographical Coordinates (lat, lon)
In addition to producing Spotter buoys, Sofar also has years of observational data available from areas of interest around the world.
Additional information
| Type | Drifting buoy, Moored buoy |
|---|---|
| Iridium/Satellite communication | Yes |
| Wave period | Yes |
| Wave direction | Y |
| Current speed | Yes |
| Current direction | Yes |
| GPS sensor | Y |
| Data logger description | Real-time data connectivity plus on-board SD Card which records time series of 3D displacement data |
| Web based control and tracking | Yes |
| Acoustic communication | No |
| Cellular comunication | No |
| Wave frequency | Yes |
| UHF/VHF communication | No |
| Air temperature | Yes |
| Air humidity | No |
| Barometric pressure | No |
| Wind speed | Yes |
| Wind direction | Yes |
| Solar radiation | No |
| Brand | Sofar Ocean |
| Addres | Sofar Ocean Pier 28 94158 San Francisco United States |
| Wave height | Yes |
| Other sensors or additional information | See Data Sheet for full list of outputs |
| Year of last update | 2021 |
| Solar panels | Yes |
| Year of introduction | 2016 |
| Length [m] | 0.42 |
| Width [m] | 0.42 |
| Hull material | Polyethylene |
| Structure Material | Polyethylene |
| Weight [kg] | 5.3 |
| Height [m] | 0.31 |
| Battery | Lithium-ion, capacity 11, 200 mAh, 3.7v (rechargeable) |
| Battery type | Lithium-ion |
| Solar panels description | 5x 2 Watt, 6 Volt solar panels |
| Sound Velocity | No |
| Water depth | No |
| Water temperature | No |
| Water salinity | No |
| Water turbidity | No |
| Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) | No |
| Nitrate | No |
| Dissolved oxygen | No |
| Chlorophyll | No |
| Underwater radiance | No |
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