Resumen de Design and deployment of Low-Cost Drifting Buoys for coastal monitoring applications

Francisco Gutiérrez, Gabriel Navarro Ortega , Raúl García, David Roque, Javier Ruíz

• Several Low-Cost Drifting Buoys (LCDB) have been designed and constructed at ICMAN-CSIC to determine flow characteristics of The Guadalquivir Estuary. Position and velocity of the drifters can be sent to a local server every ten minutes. The battery module has been dimensioned to provide experiment duration longer than two weeks. Flow patterns registered by the LCDB successfully match Acoustic Doppler Current (ADC) data from some others moored ADC profilers.