SOCIB visitors: Mr. David Gómez, Director of "Ports de les Illes Balears", visited SOCIB headquarters

Mr. David Gómez and Mr Sebastian Bustamante, Director and IT Responsible from "Ports de les Illes Balears", visited SOCIB headquarters on February 5th, 2014. Joaquín Tintoré and Benjamín Casas presented the ongoing activities with particular emphasis on the role of technology development and real time data availability for decision support in harbors in particular. After the presentation a meeting was held to advance in the coordination of joint activities between “Ports de les Illes Balears” and SOCIB.

Some examples of the innovative tools developed at SOCIB and showed during this visit are:

  • Forecasting models and tools for search and rescue operations, oil spill tracking in the ocean and implementation of decision support tools to establish the coastal response
  • New technologies such as underwater gliders for routine monitoring of our oceans and coastal areas
  • Indicators and methodologies to advance towards real science based sustainability by establishing equilibrium points between environmental, economical and societal goals
  • Smartphones apps for real time visualization of oceans and coasts data
  • Beach monitoring systems related to beach safety, etc.
  • Data management at SOCIB, real time data available, catalogue, visualization, download, etc.
  • Outreach applications such "Follow the Glider", a web based educational tool focused on students