Past and Current projects

We are happy to have a new collaboration with SOOP: Shaping an Ocean of Possibilities, an innovative platform from the Helmholtz Centres AWI, Geomar and Hereon. This platform provides innovative solutions for measuring, collecting and using ocean measurement data with a focus on non-scientific users and citizen scientists.

In our fruitful cooperation we deliver services and products like:

• Installation, Service and Operation of Meterological Instruments (METbox)
• Delivering, Service and Support of Lagrangian Drifters (HLD)

<2025-09-22 Mon>

Reducing the amount of plastic of our existing drifters for The Ocean Race Europe 2025.

• Challenge: To improve our environmental footprint and spread the message of reducing ocean plastic, we set out to lower the amount of plastic used in our Lagrangian drifters.
• Soultion: Through engineering redesign and rigorous testing, we upgraded Lagrangian Drifter v1, substituting a substantial portion of the plastic components with alternative, more sustainable materials.
• Result: The revamped drifter now contains far less plastic while still delivering high quality measurements. The Ocean Race Europe 25 became our first customer to trial these greener drifters, confirming their enhanced performance and reduced environmental impact.

<2025-08-29 Fri>

Development of a real-time maritime data visualization tool as a proof-of-concept demonstrator.

• Challenge: Maritime operators require a solution that maintains sustained focus while interpreting complex oceanographic data, ensuring situational awareness without cognitive overload.
• Solution: Integrated gamification principles to enhance user engagement and prolong attention spans. Prioritized user-centric design with modular layouts, interactive dashboards, and customizable visual themes. Built using the Godot engine for frontend interactivity, paired with custom-tailored backend systems for real-time data processing.
• Result: A scalable demonstrator platform primed for adaptation into specialized maritime products (e.g., vessel monitoring, environmental tracking, or port management systems).

<2025-04-10 Thu>

Developed a electrical small high-frequency (HF) antenna prototype optimized for noise-limited environments per ITU's radio noise (P.372), which defines global radio noise estimates.

• Challenge: Balancing efficiency with eletrical length and noise in the front-end
• Solution: Theoretical Simulation and mathematical parametric optimization for different prototypes
• Result: Verifying parameters in the LAB (field-probes, Helmholtz-Coil, VNA)

<2025-03-07 Fri>

Architected a software-defined radio (SDR) frontend for real-time HF signal processing.

• Key Components:
  • Xilinx Zynq 7000 MPSoC for DSP + ARM processing.
  • Custom HDL (VHDL) for IQ demodulation, custom filter and decimation
  • Using Vivado SDK
• Robustness: Achieved predefined latencies and optimzed CIC,FIR-Filter
• Outcome : Deployed in field tests for dynamic spectrum monitoring (3–30 MHz).

<2025-03-07 Fri>

Fused asynchronous data into a unified track estimate for a maritime surveillance system.

• Innovation: Time-stamped sensor fusion with Bayesian filters for irregular sampling intervals (seconds-minutes).
• Technical Challenge: Mitigated tracks with different precisions and intervals on a functional programming language \(\lambda\).

<2024-11-18 Mon>

Advised on signal processing algorithms for a passive radar system leveraging signals of opportunities.

• Scope: Modified existing source code to improve clutter detection (STAP-like) in a multistatic environment
• Role: Technical consulting, algorithm development, support for scientific end-users

<2024-10-25 Fri>