Bangor University Provision of a X-Band Radar System

Description

SEEC is an interdisciplinary £7M “big data” research centre that is addressing priorities in low carbon energy science. SEEC is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, administered through the Welsh Government. SEEC is a flagship strategic development for the newly formed College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at Bangor University. It will lead innovation on how advanced engineering, computer science and modelling can be applied most effectively to tackle grand challenges of increasing the sustainability of energy supply and utilization, while minimizing negative environmental impacts, in particular net carbon emissions. SEEC will be instrumental in positioning Wales at the forefront of this technological revolution, which is one of the highest priorities to address within the current climate crisis. The project is seeking to acquire an X-band radar system to enable data acquisition activities and research on data analysis techniques needed for improved characterisation of wave and current resource and environmental interactions for marine renewables. We anticipate that X-band radar will have an increasingly important role in offshore site characterisation due to its ability to capture local variations in wave and current properties over a spatially extended domain (the radar range), whereas other sensors only give measurements at a single point.