Offshore and ocean. Open ocean: a moored buoy, a profiling float and a satellite overhead. Buoy mast to a ship mast: 26.7 km.

Open ocean: a moored buoy, a profiling float and a satellite overhead.

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Field environments

Offshore and ocean

A moored met-ocean buoy and a profiling float report through a satellite pass overhead; the red link is the uplink.

Tour transcript

1. Open ocean: a moored buoy, a profiling float and a satellite overhead.
2. The buoy reports the sea state on station.
3. The float profiles the water column, then surfaces to report.
4. The red uplinks are the only path to shore.

In this scene

Discus hull

Wind, waves, pressure and sea temperature from a 3 m discus moored on station. (WMO BUFR, IOOS QARTOD)

Pressure hull

Profiles temperature and salinity to 2,000 m, surfaces and reports by satellite. (Argo data formats, Iridium SBD)

Spacecraft bus

A satellite pass carries the reports to shore; no cable, no coastal tower. (3GPP NTN (Rel-17), CCSDS)