What metocean monitoring needs
Metocean campaigns combine meteorological and oceanographic measurement to describe the conditions at a site: waves, wind, currents, temperature, pressure and salinity. Offshore wind, energy and marine operations need that data continuously and at the exact point the work is happening, often for a season or more. A Scout USV carries the full metocean payload above and below the surface and streams it back by satellite in real time.
- Waves - height, period and direction
- Wind - speed and direction at the surface
- Currents - through the water column with a profiler
- Water - sea surface temperature, pressure and salinity
- Your own instruments - in an open payload bay
Relocatable, not anchored
A moored metocean buoy gives a long record at one fixed point, but the installed cost runs from hundreds of thousands of pounds into the millions, and it cannot follow the work. Scout holds position as a virtual anchor for months, then motors to a new site on command, with no mooring permits, anchor infrastructure or maintenance dives. Across the North Sea, Baltic and Nordic offshore wind sectors that means one platform can cover several sites in a season. See the head-to-head on the moored buoy alternative page.
Own it or task us
Buy a Scout from £40,000 per unit to run in-house, or take it fully managed as data-as-a-service with no capital cost and data delivered to your own cloud. See what the data costs across methods on the ocean data cost page, the wider ocean data collection methods, or the offshore wind monitoring page.