Smartfin: Surfing for Science: Summer 2021
Channel: UC San Diego Engineers for Exploration
Date: 2021-09-11

The Smartfin is a powerful tool that encourages citizen science by bringing together surfers and scientists to collect oceanic data in order to better understand our coastlines. It is a surfboard fin that is capable of collecting inertial, temperature, and GPS data. Our goal is to produce accurate wave height data from our experimental data. This summer, our team has been working on implementing Kalman Filters on inertial data to determine the exact motion and position of the fin. Additionally, we have been working on a Spectral Analysis model to work with our Kalman filter to calculate wave height.

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Music: Lullaby by QU4NTUM