Mr Greg Williams¹

¹RPS Metocean, RPS Australia West, Jolimont, Australia

During H1 of 2018, RPS designed and built two Lidar Buoys that support upward-looking Lidar instruments to measure the wind profile from 15 to 300 m above sea level. The most important aspect of the buoy design was data measurement quality.

There are many aspects of buoy design which contribute to overall measurement quality, including:
• Hull, keel and structure design
• Sensor selection and integration
• Power system
• Communications and logging systems
• Mooring design

RPS have constructed and validated nine LiDAR buoys to date with good results in validation and during commercial deployments, proving the design concepts. This presentation will discuss the rationale behind each design aspect.

Biography:

Greg Williams is a metocean specialist with over 25 years meteorological/oceanographic, NWP, and ICT experience.

Greg has extensive experience in the development and management of technology implementations in the metocean space, including specialist forecaster workstations, realtime observation and satellite processing systems, distributed geographical information systems and interfaces, large scale cluster, cloud and distributed database systems, and interactive web-presentation and visualisation portals.

He has managed modelling teams and data management services for major metocean companies and defence agencies, in areas of big-data analytics, HPC and cloud-migration services, and technical metocean consultancy to a wide range of industry groups in 17 countries.