SOUTH WEST STRATEGIC REGIONAL COASTAL MONITORING PROGRAMME UPDATE ROB WEBBON OFFICE MANAGER

PROGRAMME UPDATE Local Authorities Hydrodynamic Surveys Control Network Topographic Surveys Bathymetric Surveys Environment Agency Aerial Photography LiDAR Surveys Ecological Surveys

LA PROGRESS Pre-Qualification stage completed for all 3 projects Contract awarded for Hydrodynamic Surveys –EMU Limited Contracts have been awarded for Topographic Surveys Work briefs have been sent out for Bathymetric Surveys

Hydrodynamic Data 6 Directional Wave Buoys: –Moored to the seabed –Radio link to a land station –Broadband link to the CCO –Real time data every 30 minutes –Freely available as of April 2007 –Already installed at Minehead, Perranporth, West Bay and Chesil

Hydrodynamic Data 2 Tide Gauges: –Downward looking WaveRex tide gauges –Installed on fixed structure –Broadband connection back to CCO –Real time data –One at Teignmouth, one at West Bay

Control Network 115 points 3 Hour occupation Surveyed and Processed Tied into OS and EA networks Data to be placed on website

Topographic surveys 5 work packages awarded to 4 contractors Cartographical surveys won TSW1 Contract meetings 25 th and 30 th January Surveys will begin in February 1 baseline survey 2 interim profiles per year 1 post storm

Bathymetric surveys 8 work packages Bathy work brief sent out 08/01/2007 Surveys to begin in Summer Single beam survey 1 km offshore to MHWN © Titan Environmental Surveys Ltd

Aerial Photography Simmons Aerofilm 20% Flown To be completed Summer 2007

Aerial Photography

LiDAR Awarded in-house (Twerton) 10% Flown Currently being used to ortho-rectify aerial photos To be completed by May 2007

LiDAR Image courtesy of Environment Agency

Office Update All Software and Hardware up and running 2 new employees Strong links with University of Plymouth All data collected, processed and analysed at Plymouth before transfer to CCO website

Working Together Special requirements from the programme? We aim to provide: –A regional approach –High quality data –Freely available to any interested parties –Website live from April 2007 Historical Data

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