Running from December 2017 to February 2022, MELOA (Multi-purpose/Multi-sensor Extra Light Oceanography Apparatus) is a H2020 project that is developing an innovative family of ocean surface drifters, the WAVY drifter units, allowing for a low-cost, easily deployable, high versatility, and low maintenance system for in-situ measurements in marine environments.
Focused on covering marine observation gaps, the WAVYs will increase the availability of in-situ data for coastal and open ocean zones. The MELOA project is developing the first prototypes for the different WAVY unit configurations and engaging with the marine community to test them in different marine environments, collecting and making available the data from the test campaigns and building, on top of this data, the first products and services to showcase the usefulness of the WAVY data.
The MELOA Consortium is composed by EU partners working in close collaboration with the marine communities worldwide to develop solutions that will enable to tackle some societal challenges, namely those related in situ data collection for marine monitoring.
