Webinar: Building South Africa’s real-time coastal observation network with SAEON & STS
Webinar: Building South Africa’s real-time coastal observation network with SAEON & STS
Learn how SAEON & STS deploy Spotter Platforms along South Africa’s coast to better detect, understand, and predict environmental change.
Sofar Ocean
Jun 18, 2025
Webinar Overview
Webinar: Building South Africa’s real-time coastal observation network with SAEON and STS - YouTube
In this webinar, Dr. Tommy Bornman (South African Environmental Observation Network - SAEON), André Hoek (Sea Technology Services - STS), and Jasmine Eggleton (Sofar) detail how SAEON & STS deploy Spotter Platforms along South Africa’s coast to collect real-time surface and subsurface data to better detect, understand, and predict environmental change.
Agenda:
- Deploy Spotters at scale in key locations along South Africa’s rugged coastline to make real-time observations of waves, subsurface temperature, dissolved oxygen, and other key variables.
- Leverage the Bristlemouth open connectivity standard to integrate Spotter with custom thermistor strings to profile the thermocline in real time.
- Combine real-time Spotter data with observations from other platforms to rapidly expand coastal monitoring efforts and climate resilience across South Africa.
A Q&A follows the presentation.
Jasmine Eggleton
Sofar Ocean
Dr. Tommy Bornman
SAEON
André Hoek
STS