Low Cost Tide & Sea Level Measurements for Intertidal Public Safety

A recent NERC-funded proof of concept award successfully demonstrated that Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals reflected off the sea surface and received by very low cost (<£30) GPS receivers can be used to estimate the difference in height between the receiver and the water. This represents a method of remotely sensing tidal elevations and, if averaged over time, mean sea level. These could be routinely and remotely measuring sea level at a cost that would allow unprecedented numbers of systems to be deployed around the world by organisations of all sizes and levels of funding.

Principal Investigator: Dr Paul S. Bell
Email: psb@noc.ac.uk
 

Project Dates: 
December 2017 to May 2019
Funding: 

NERC – Innovation Funding

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