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Volume 8, Number 2 (2007)

Predicting Sand Wave Dynamics On the Netherlands Continental Shelf

Submitted
August 13, 2013
Published
2007-06-06

Abstract

The Dutch North Sea part is mapped by two authorities. Both developed a method for analyzing time series of bathymetric data and predicting future sea floor depths. The Netherlands Hydrographic Service can use deformation analysis to describe sand wave dynamics for a complete area and to predict depth changes for individual grid points. RWS North Sea maintains a spatiotemporal Kalman filter to estimate and predict local sea floor dynamics. We combine both approaches to obtain a state space prediction method that incorporates sand wave propagation.