Buoys Provide Real-Time Surf Data

Abstract

U.S. Navy beachmasters are using small, lightweight recording buoys to provide timely and accurate information for controlling boat lanes and tracking real time changes In surf conditions. The buoys, which log pitch, roll, and yaw to determine a wide variety of wave parameters, employ recently developed miniaturized accelerometers and magnetometers to measure wave characteristics that are entered into the Navy Standard Surf Model to calculate automatically surf information and the Modified Surf Index (MSI).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA359008

Entities

People

  • C. Reid Nichols
  • David W. Tungett
  • Richard Allard

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerometers
  • Computers
  • Ground Stations
  • Landing Craft
  • Laptop Computers
  • Littoral Warfare
  • Magnetometers
  • Marine Corps
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Research
  • Navy
  • Personnel Management
  • Standards
  • Training
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computer Science.