Patented Technology
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Coastal Nomad® family
Commercialised under patented technology developed at CSIC (Spanish National Research Council).
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SouthTEK Sensing Technologies S.L.
CSIC spin-off company providing cost-effective, precise, robust and handy equipment for operation at sea.
Visualize the Ocean in Real Time
Track and manage your SouthTEK Nomads with LD Manager, a powerful software that turns ocean data into insight.
Choose the Nomad That Fits Your Mission
Each Nomad is engineered for specific marine environments — durable, easy to deploy and ready to deliver accurate data worldwide.
Global Satellite Connectivity via Iridium®
Each SouthTEK Nomad communicates through the Iridium® satellite network, ensuring full global coverage even in the most remote ocean areas. This reliable system transmits real-time position and sensor data directly to the user, guaranteeing secure and uninterrupted communication at sea.
How the SouthTEK System Works
Position data collected by the Nomad is sent via the Iridium® satellite network and made available through the Internet to the LD Manager software.
Meet the Nomad Family
Developed from years of marine research, the SouthTEK Nomad family offers reliable ocean drifters for every environment.
From coastal monitoring to offshore missions, each model shares the same DNA: precision, durability and simplicity.
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JELLYFISHI am doing my Ph D on the ecology of jellyfishes in the western Mediterranean. I came across with the buoys from SouthTEK and though they can help me to understand how coastal currents transport these animals across beaches. Being a biologist by formation, it was surprising for me how quickly I obtained information about physical processes like currents and advection, and they are very easy to operate. As they say, to switch them on is all you need to start getting valuable information; thanks SouthTEK team for this great job! -
POLLUTION IN THE MEDITERRANEANAt CNR in Oristano (www.seaforecast.cnr.it) we have used both Offshore and Coastal Nomad drifters in areas of the Central and Western Mediterranean Sea. These are areas under potential risks of pollution due to heavy metals or oil in the marine environment. SouthTEK drifters have shown to be low cost, easy-to-use and reliable instruments in both open waters and inside harbors. Their high data quality has permitted us to validate easily coastal and open ocean numerical models, each of them with different needs. -
SEARCH AND RESCUESalvamento Marítimo (www.salvamentomaritimo.es) provides the public service of Search and Rescue in Spain under the Ministry of Fomento. It is critical to us to get knowledge of the currents at sea so that we can address our maritime and aerials units to the position where a shipwrecked person is expected to be. We used both Coastal and Offshore Nomad buoys, and its contrast with simulated processes, to this aim, and they were very useful and are easy to configure and operate. They are also robust and the battery can be recharged once picked up, so we have been using them over and over again over several years now. -
CURRENT DIAGNOSENomads drifters are the perfect complement to validate our models for the complex circulation of the Strait of Gibraltar. Currents and counter-currents predicted by our theoretical and numerical analyses were later confirmed thanks to the precision provided by these buoys; good value for money, no doubt! -
PLANKTONI operated Noman buoys from SouthTEK while at the project MEGAN (www.facebook.com/MeganOceanography) to follow the Lagrangian path of plankton patches. Their precision and easy operation allowed us to track these mesoscale patches with our oceanographic vessel. The experiment with more than 30 drifters was a full success and one to repeat in future cruises with these reliable and technologically advanced buoys.
