• Helicopter Take-off & Landing (see Shipboard Helicopter Operations)
• Small Boat Operations
• ROVs, ASVs, AUVs, etc.

Ship-to-Ship Transfer

• Lighterage
• Cargo
• Personnel (Personnel Baskets, Walk-to-work Gangways, etc)

Construction (see Offshore Construction)

• Jacket Installations
• Delicate Floatover and Touchdown Operations
• Launch and Recovery of Assets
• Transfers between Vessels/Platforms
• Crane Operations in the Splash Zone

Stability Monitoring

• Warning of Degradation
  (ice accretion, free surface effects, etc.)

Low-Visibility Sea-State Awareness

• Detailed Ocean Information during Low-Vis Scenarios (fog, heavy rain, night operations, etc.)

Feed Forward vs Feedback Information for On Board Systems (Preemptive vs. Reactive)

• Active Heave Compensation
• Motion Compensated Gangways
• Dynamic Positioning

Cruise Ships

• Optimum Course/Speed for Best Ride

Autonomous Surface Vessels

• Ocean Condition Input to On Board Systems

Recorded Data

• Forensics, Incident Investigation, and Best Practices / Lessons Learned
• Optimization of RAO Tables
• Justification of Deviation from Planned Routes
• Asset Integrity Studies
• Metocean Research

Safe Operation Envelope Guidance (Dynamic SOE Charts)

• Polar plots to protect against hazardous wave conditions for vessels such as high-speed personnel transports

GD-APS is always looking to enhance our technology and provide customers with tools and interfaces unique to their requirements.

If FutureWaves does not have the right solution for your needs out-of-the-box, we will develop a metocean tool tailored to your application.