Project Team

The European Space Agency is funding the GlobWave project through its Data User Element (DUE) program.

The French Space Agency, CNES, is subsidising the GlobWave Project.

Logica brings project and subcontractor management experience from numerous ESA projects, as well as expertise in operational EO data processing systems to provide the sound engineering practice required for design and implementation of the GlobWave system. We also bring our current experience from the ESA “Generic Environment for Cal/Val Analysis” project, which has synergies with the GlobWave project and objectives, including working with a diverse group of scientists to arrive at a unified user and system requirement specifications that satisfy the needs of the entire group.

Ifremer provides numerous services and products related to research and exploration of the sea. This covers a wide range of activities, from disseminating information on programme results, to customised services based on the scientific and technical skills and investigation facilities which are the institute's assets. Within the scope of the GlobWave project, Ifremer is involved through its Center for Satellite Exploitation and Research (CERSAT) for its expertise on satellite wave measurements and data management. It will host the operational system.

CLS are experts at receiving and processing data with specialised staff that operate processing centres that ensure continuous operation of more that fifteen orbiting instruments. CLS brings many years of experience in wave data retrievals both from satellite altimetry (from their centre in Toulouse) and from SAR (from their centre in Brest, formerly known as BOOST Technologies.)

NOC is one of the World's leading oceanographic institutes and has extensive experience in the use of satellite data for oceanographic research, including the use of altimetry, SAR and Sea Surface Temperature data and calibration/validation and modelling activities for the study of wind and waves. Researchers have developed a range of new algorithms, products and tools, including a wave period parameter and the GAPS collocated altimeter data and associated dissemination system. NOC has been at the forefront of developing interfaces to data sources and information and will build on their existing EU MyOcean project HR-DDS to develop the GlobWave DDS.

Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Limited (SatOC) was founded in 2008 by Dr David Cotton and Dr Ellis Ash, both with over 12 years experience of consultancy and applied research in satellite oceanography. SatOC's principal expertise is on the analysis and applications of data from satellite altimetry, especially wind and wave data. SatOC also has a good working knowledge of wave data from SAR satellites. We have worked extensively with these data in three key areas: near real-time processing and dissemination of data products to users; altimeter calibration and validation; wind and wave statistics. In GlobWave we are working on altimeter data processing, error characterisation and statistics, demonstration products and user documentation.