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The principal objective of the Success project is to prepare educational material for teachers of marine engineering students that demonstrates the applications of satellite observations of surface wave behaviour.

Participants

IFREMER, Brest, France (Lead Partner)
Satellite Observing Systems, Godalming, UK
University of Lund, Sweden
MétéoMer, France
DTU - Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Ecole Centrale de Paris, Paris, France
Universita degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy

For names and addresses, click here.

Funded by

Training & Education Programme of the EU's DG XII.

Duration

November 1996 - June 1998

Approach

Materials under preparation by the team include a text-book, video and slides.  It is intended to translate the book (which is written in English) into 3 or 4 other European languages depending on resources.  These are likely to be French, German, Italian and one other.
 

Progress

November 1997
        A first draft of the multi-author text-book is completed.  David Carter of SOS is the book¹s editor and SOS staff contributed the first 3 chapters.  The Table of Contents is listed below:
 
        1       Observing the sea from space
        2       Altimeter measurements of surface waves and wind speed
        3       Synthetic aperture radar
        4       Sea states and wave characteristics
        5       Wave spectra and wave models
        6       Extreme events
        7       Statistical model choice and estimation
        8       Applications
        9       Exercises and examples
                Appendices

       

March 1999
The project was extended by some months. The English version of the text book has been completed and sent to IFREMER where it is being printed, and should be available during April. Translations into French, Greek and Italian are underway. The video should be available later this year.

May 1999
The textbook and video were officially launched at a press conference in Brest during the 9th ISOPE Conference.

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