The Success project, as the acronym implies, was aimed at making Ocean Engineers and Naval Architects more aware of the increasing availability of satellite measurements of the ocean - especially of waves - and of how they might incorporate information from these measurements into their designs and operational planning. The project took place between November 1996 and May 1999, and was funded by the Training and Education Programme of the European Community's DG XII. At the end of the project a text book and video were published, to help academic staff present this relatively new subject to their students.
The textbook, Oceans
from Space, describes, primarily for university students studying the
design of offshore structures, the statistics of ocean waves and the significant
advances in the measurement of waves which have resulted over the past few
decades from the introduction of satellite radar instruments. A set of independent
videos, provided on a single tape, aims to put into perspective several aspects
of metocean data, from their acquisition to their operational applications.
It is meant to motivate the students by giving them a "real life"
view of the measurements of sea conditions.