NOC News Round Up - 2 February 2018

W-SENSE joins Innovation Centre as Strategic Partner Pioneering underwater wireless networking and communications systems developer W•SENSE Ltd has joined the NOC's Marine Robotics Innovation Centre as a Strategic Partner. The company was initially established as part of the Sapienza University of Rome, specialising in monitoring and communication systems with pioneering patented solutions in the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT).  W•SENSE director, Professor Chiara Petrioli, said: "We are extremely honoured to be welcomed into the NOC family. It's a great step for W•SENSE and a massive vote of confidence. We're very much looking forward to further developing and testing our technology with input from the talented team at the NOC. The W•SENSE team is looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together." NOC satellite altimetry developments features in a new book NOC's Dr Paolo Cipollini is the lead author of a chapter in a new reference book on satellite altimetry. It highlights the NOC's leading role in extending the technique of altimetry to the coastal zone, where the effects of rising sea levels are most severely felt by society. Satellite altimetry is one of the most successful ever techniques for monitoring the oceans and climate from space, however until recently altimeter data near the coast were discarded due to a string of technical obstacles. NOC staff have been leading the international R&D efforts that now allow the recovery of meaningful measurements of sea level (as well as of wave height and wind), a wholly new field of research known as coastal altimetry. Satellite Altimetry Over Oceans and Land Surfaces has been edited by Detlef Stammer and Anny Cazenave and is published by CRC Press of the Taylor and Francis Group. Oceanids programme in the spotlight at Innovate UK event Head of Marine Autonomous Systems Development, Dr Alex Phillips, introduced the NOC's Oceanids programme to an audience of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence experts at an Innovate UK networking event this week.  Science in action! Instrument design is now under way at the NOC to develop a new approach to observe wave overtopping at coastal sites with sea walls.   This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Oceanography Centre · Waterfront Campus · European Way · Southampton · SO14 3ZH · United Kingdom