FERRYBOX

In the European FerryBox Project eleven partners on nine routes were cooperating together to develop and test operational oceanographic systems on ferries and ships of opportunity (FerryBoxes). The objectives were: (1) to show how FerryBoxes can be used for autonomous measurements of environmental parameters, (2) to quantify environmental variability of selected parameters on a European wide scale, (3) to improve the quality of numerical models by assimilation of FerryBox data, (4) to demonstrate the reliability of such systems for monitoring the marine environment at all times of the year and (5) to recommend to the European marine community how future FerryBoxes can be constructed, installed and operated.