The Stevens Integrated Maritime Surveillance Forecast System: Expansion and Enhancement

Download or read book The Stevens Integrated Maritime Surveillance Forecast System: Expansion and Enhancement written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-term goal of the project is to develop an advanced, integrated system of oceanographic, meteorological, and vessel surveillance sensors and littoral ocean forecasting models to allow for the real-time assessment of ocean, weather, environmental, and vessel traffic conditions throughout the New York Harbor region, and the forecast of conditions in the near and long-term and under specific threat scenarios. In the long-term, the observation and modeling systems will be linked in a unique fashion, whereby the model forecast system will be enhanced by data assimilation, and the observing system will be enhanced by model-directed observations and model-assisted data interpolation. During the year under report, the objective was to enhance and expand an existing observing and forecasting system of New York Harbor that is used to support both safe navigation and port security. The system is structured to enable real-time and ongoing changes to the sampling scheme of the observation system, based on model forecasts and/or user intervention primary objectives of the past year's effort included the installation of an HF RADAR system to provide synoptic measurements of surface currents in the Lower Harbor, improved wireless data transmission, installation of a CTD sensor on a Harbor vessel, and the development of sophisticated model-assisted data interpolation and graphics.