European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Data

EMEC have over 30TB of in-situ data that has been generated through data collection programs monitoring the environmental conditions at the test sites. Most of this data has not been analysed.

The data provided describes physical environmental conditions on EMEC sites around Orkney Isles. These include in-situ observations and numerical modelling results covering the year 2015. The data shows:

Observed wave conditions at EMEC’s Billi Croo wave test site;
Meteorological observations in two locations adjacent to wave and tidal test sites, collected using MetPak weather stations;
Data from short tidal current observational campaign using TRDI Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; and,
Numerical modelling results for four locations around Orkney Isles, showing simulated time series of tidal water level and currents.

It is recommended you read an overview of metocean data and its usage in marine renewables industry. An overview of metocean data and its usage in marine renewables industry is described in: “Guidelines for the use of metocean data through the life cycle of a marine renewable energy development”, that could be downloaded through this link.

EMEC has collected data from 4 Datawell Wave rider buoys, ADCP’s from Teledyne Marine, weather data using Gill Instruments, including a hydrodynamic model using MIKE 21. Below are links to manufacture’s websites.

Datawell BV

Teledyne Marine
Gill Instruments
Mike 21

Satellite Data

You can access Sentinel 1 Satellite data here: Sentinel 1 Satellite Data from SEDAS

The Copernicus Open Access Hub also provide Sentinel 1 Satellite Data.

Access the European Space Agency’s Education and Training web page here. Where you can access a huge amount of information including the basics of what Earth observation is, to how to actually use the data for particular applications.

The toolbox ESA provides to process their data is called SNAP (Sentinel Application Platform). The online tutorials for SNAP can be found here.

SNAP installation information can be found here. http://step.esa.int/main/download/

Sentinel-1 tutorials: https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/toolboxes/sentinel-1/tutorials & http://step.esa.int/main/doc/tutorials/sentinel-1-toolbox-tutorials/

GEE: https://earthengine.google.com/

GEE tutorials: https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/tutorials

There are other Sentinel satellite missions that provide open data that could provide really useful insight into the challenge. In particular, there are missions that map sea-surface height and ocean topography which may be of use.