SOS has longer experience in the field of creating useful marine products from raw satellite data than any company in Europe, and this is reflected in the number of Training Workshops it has been asked to organise around the world. We are completely current with the programmes and aspirations of all the major space agencies and we are a leading promoter of 'real-time' constellations. No organisation, whose interest lies in the sea, can afford to remain ignorant of the increasingly relevant role of satellite surveillance to its operations.
Several satellites measure the height of waves at the sea surface.
This then used to provide high quality marine statistics and climatology.