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Sea-level M<strong>on</strong>itoring at MARNET Stati<strong>on</strong>s in the Southern Baltic Sea<br />

Lutz Eberlein 1 , Reinhard Dietrich 1 , Marko Neukamm 1 , Gunter Liebsch 2<br />

1 TU Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie,D-01062Dresden, Germany, eberlein@ipg.geo.tu-dresden<br />

2 now: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Außenstelle Leipzig, Karl-Rothe-Straße 10-14,D-04105 Leipzig<br />

Motivati<strong>on</strong><br />

The availability of instantaneous offshore sea-level heights<br />

with a high temporal resoluti<strong>on</strong> is a valuable complement to<br />

already existing informati<strong>on</strong> like measurements of tide<br />

gauges al<strong>on</strong>g the coastline, sea-level heights obtained by<br />

satellite altimeter missi<strong>on</strong>s or sea-level heights predicted by<br />

oceanographic models. Liebsch et al. (2003)<br />

Realizati<strong>on</strong><br />

For the m<strong>on</strong>itoring of instantaneous sea-level variati<strong>on</strong>s at<br />

the open sea permanently operating platforms offer optimum<br />

c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s. In the Southern Baltic Sea there exist two<br />

platforms within the “Marine Envir<strong>on</strong>mental M<strong>on</strong>itoring<br />

Network (MARNET)” BSH (2004) of the “Bundesamt für<br />

Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH)”, which is operated<br />

by the “Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (IOW)”.<br />

Our institute has designed a multi-sensor observati<strong>on</strong> system<br />

for the determinati<strong>on</strong> of sea-level heights at these MARNET<br />

stati<strong>on</strong>s. The system c<strong>on</strong>sists of a pressure and a radar<br />

gauge, an inclinometer, a geodetic GPS system and a data<br />

logger (Fig.1). The two systems were installed in November<br />

2002 and in February 2003.<br />

Measurements are carried out every hour with a sampling<br />

interval of 15 minutes. The sampling rate is 0.2 sec<strong>on</strong>ds for<br />

the pressure gauge and 1 sec<strong>on</strong>d for the other sensors.<br />

The observati<strong>on</strong> c<strong>on</strong>cept is completed by a GPS reference<br />

stati<strong>on</strong>, which was installed at the top of the lighthouse of<br />

the island Hiddensee (Fig. 2).<br />

One problem to be solved for the multi-sensor system was to<br />

determine the eccentricity between the sensors, especially<br />

between the GPS antenna and the pressure gauge under<br />

offshore terms with sufficiet accuracy.<br />

We will discuss the technical design, the data processing and<br />

the quality management of the multi-sensor system in order<br />

to get sea-level heights with an accuracy of a few<br />

centimeters. We will show results, e.g. comparis<strong>on</strong>s of the<br />

pressure and the radar gauge.<br />

References<br />

BSH, Marines Umweltmessnetz des BSH in Nord- und<br />

Ostsee, http://www.bsh.de/de/<br />

Meeresdaten/Beobachtungen/MARNET-<br />

Messnetz/Langtext.PDF, 2004<br />

G.Liebsch et al., Realisati<strong>on</strong> of a Multisensoral<br />

Observati<strong>on</strong> System for the Determinati<strong>on</strong> of Offshore<br />

Sea-Level Heights, Poster EGS-AGU-EUG Joint<br />

Assembly, Nice, France, 06-11 April 2003<br />

Figure . 1 Comp<strong>on</strong>ents of the multi-sensor system<br />

Figure . 2 Locati<strong>on</strong> of the MARNET and GPS<br />

Reference stati<strong>on</strong>s

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