Fig 1. Measurements of surface waves by wave buoys operated by Coastal Ocean Monitoring Center (COMC), National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan.
(a) The discus buoy is equipped with an GPS receiver, anemometers, radar reflector, temperature sensors, accelerometer-tilt-compass (ATC) sensor and acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). (b) The buoy motions by six degrees of freedom are heave, sway and surge, roll, pitch, and yaw.