SEAWATCH India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam

SEAWATCH India; Phase 1, 1996-99

The project deliveries include installation, operation and maintenance of a National Data Buoy Programme (NDBP) for the Department of Ocean Development (DOD), Government of India. The system includes 15 oceanographic buoys, of which a number is already deployed and are transmitting data via satellite to the operation centre.

National Data Buoy Programme

SEAWATCH Indonesia; Phase 1, 1996-99;
Optional Phase 2, 1999-2004

This system which is delivered to the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) is very similar to SEAWATCH Thailand and includes all major elements described below. Phase 1 is under implementation and the first buoys are in operation north of Java. The BPPT SEAWATCH staff is taking part in the HRD programme, which includes training and visits to Norwegian institutions and formal university studies, in addition to the on-site on-job training and courses and workshops arranged in Indonesia.

SEAWATCH Thailand I 1991-94; SEAWATCH Thailand II 1995-98 

The project SEAWATCH Thailand I included the ground version with all modules of SEAWATCH, geographically restricted to the Gulf of Thailand. 
The project SEAWATCH Thailand II was extended to a new geographical area, the Andaman Sea, and included a new meteorological module with atmospheric models, a hydrodynamic model for the Andaman Sea, extension of the communication system to include Inmarsat C, and an extended HRD module.
The systems were delivered to the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) and include all major elements, including buoys, numerical models, hardware and software for handling of data, the human resource development module including training, and building the SEAWATCH organisation.

SEAWATCH Thailand

SEAWATCH Vietnam;
Phase 1, 1995-96;
Phase 2, 1998-2000

After a series of marine disasters in Vietnam a project was initiated on the initiative of the United Nations (UN) to improve the typhoon forecasting and warning system, described and defined in the UN report "Strategy and Action Plan for Mitigation Water Disasters in Viet Nam". In order to reach the objectives expressed in the UN report, OCEANOR was selected to deliver an automatic real-time offshore buoy data system during a one year project in 1995-96. The project included SEAWATCH buoys, installation of software and hardware systems in an operation centre, a training and technology transfer programme, and operation of the buoys. The SEAWATCH Vietnam system was implemented at the Hydrometeorological Services of Vietnam (HMS).
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