The paper describes a measurement campaign carried out by means of GPS receivers installed on board of a moving sailboat and the application for the estimation of the local wave properties. The movements of the boat, as reconstructed using the present approach, may be used for many useful practical purposes, as for example the improvement of autopilots or for real time control systems of ships, to analyze and improve the performance of race sailboats, to estimate the local properties of the waves. An application of the method to estimate the wave properties during a storm in the Western Mediterranean Sea is presented, and the results compared against two sets of hindcast data and wave buoy records.
Girolamo, P.D., Crespi, M., Romano, A., Mazzoni, A., Risio, M.D., Pasquali, D., et al. (2018). Wave characteristics estimation by GPS receivers installed on a sailboat travelling off-shore. In 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters, MetroSea 2018 - Proceedings (pp.18-22). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. [10.1109/MetroSea.2018.8657850].
Wave characteristics estimation by GPS receivers installed on a sailboat travelling off-shore
Romano A.;Bellotti G.;
2018-01-01
Abstract
The paper describes a measurement campaign carried out by means of GPS receivers installed on board of a moving sailboat and the application for the estimation of the local wave properties. The movements of the boat, as reconstructed using the present approach, may be used for many useful practical purposes, as for example the improvement of autopilots or for real time control systems of ships, to analyze and improve the performance of race sailboats, to estimate the local properties of the waves. An application of the method to estimate the wave properties during a storm in the Western Mediterranean Sea is presented, and the results compared against two sets of hindcast data and wave buoy records.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
