BLUElink Applications

BLUElink Applications

• Optimum ship routeing to achieve fuel savings and shipping schedules.
  
  
• Enhanced environmental information for onboard naval tactical resopnse systems, improved sonar performance, training exercises, and troop landings.
  
  
• Predictions of changes in ocean conditions with design and cost implications for floating (oil exploration, oceanic and coastal fish farms, marinas) and permanent structures (jetties, breakwaters, pipelines and cables).
  
  
• Enhanced coastal and wildlife protection through modelling the dispersion of accidental oil and pollutant spills.
  
  
• Improved capabilities for maritime rescue and safety authorities in support of offshore maritime operations and recreational activities.
  
  
• Sustainable fishersies and fisheries management, through better understanding of how changes in the currents and the temperature and salinity of the water influence the fisheries resource.
  
  
• Identification of changes in coastal water temperatures, tides, sea level and currents that influence, for example coral reefs and aquaculture management.
  
  
• Longer lead-times in climate predictions providing agriculture, tourism, energy generators, disaster response and insurance sectores with greater planning flexibility to respond where possible to the impacts of climate.
  
  
• Access for researchers to enhanced ocean data (observed and modelled) with the potential to generate value-added applications for industry and community.