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2017 Western Passage Tidal Energy Resource Characterization Measurements

These data are from tidal resource characterization measurements collected between April and July 2017 in Western Passage near Eastport, Maine, USA. The dataset contains the following four sub-datasets, each of which is described in more detail in the README.pdf. 1. A bottom-mou...

Kilcher, L. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 31, 2017
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United States East Coast and Gulf of Mexico Ocean Surface Wave Hindcast Data

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Sandia National Laboratories

Feb 07, 2025
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Tidal Energy Resource Characterization, Velocity and Turbulence Measurements, Processed Data, Cook Inlet, AK, 2021

This submission contains processed datasets from a long-term deployment of 3 moorings and a transect survey of the proposed tidal energy site off the East Forelands in Cook Inlet, AK. The long-term mooring datasets were created from 8 instruments mounted on a Terrasond High Ener...

McVey, J. and Kilcher, L. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Aug 31, 2021
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RivGen Wake Data, Igiugig, AK

Turbulence data collected in from a SWIFT drifter repeatedly released over the ORPC RivGen turbine

Thomson, J. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Jul 01, 2015
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Raw Data from 2014-2015 TRIAXYS Buoy at Pacific Marine Energy Center South Energy Test Site, OR

From November 2014 through December 2015 a TRIAXYS wave buoy was deployed in the Pacific Marine Energy Center South Energy Test Site. This submission includes all the preprocessed data extracted from the binary TRIAXYS recordings. There was no data for February, March, or April, a...

Pittman, R. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

Dec 29, 2015
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Tidal Energy Resource Characterization, Bottom Lander Measurements, Cook Inlet, AK, 2021

These datasets are from tidal resource characterization measurements collected on the Terrasond High Energy Oceanographic Mooring (THEOM) from 1 July 2021 to 30 August 2021 (60 days) in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The lander was deployed at 60.7207031 N, 151.4294998 W in ~50 m of water. ...

Kilcher, L. and McVey, J. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Jul 01, 2021
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Velocity and Turbulence Measurements at Three Locations in the Salish Sea, WA, 2017

This submission contains raw and processed datasets of water velocity and turbulence measurements from 3-day deployments of Deepwater Buoyancy StableMoor buoys carrying acoustic Doppler instrumentation at locations in Rosario Strait, Bellingham Channel, and Tacoma Narrows, WA in 2...

McVey, J. and Kilcher, L. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jul 24, 2017
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Fish Detection AI, sonar image-trained detection, counting, tracking models

The Fish Detection AI project aims to improve the efficiency of fish monitoring around marine energy facilities to comply with regulatory requirements. Despite advancements in computer vision, there is limited focus on sonar images, identifying small fish with unlabeled data, and ...

Gutstein, S. et al Water Power Technology Office

Aug 25, 2024
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Fish Detection AI, Optic and Sonar-trained Object Detection Models

Slater, K. et al Water Power Technology Office

Jun 25, 2014
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TEAMER: Water Tunnel Data from Testing the Pterofin Skimmer Concept

Pterofin's Skimmer concept relies on a flapping and pitching hydrofoil to extract hydrokinetic energy from water flows. The concept aims to utilize unsteady fluid dynamics phenomena (added mass, shed vorticity, and unsteady boundary layer development) to achieve higher lift coeffi...

Jaffa, N. et al Pennsylvania State University, Applied Research Laboratory

Jul 13, 2023
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Characterization for Creek Tides Energy and Power Reversible Blade Turbine

Reactive reversible blade turbine (RRBT) is a new technology which provides a solution to hydro-power generation from slow-moving currents such as rivers, tides, and oceans. It features blades that pivot to capture the maximum force of the water current and then pivot again to a n...

Curet, O. Florida Atlantic University

Sep 17, 2024
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Underwater Target Detection Software Demonstration on the RivGen Turbine

This repository includes data, object detection models, and processing scripts necessary to evaluate the accuracy of the object detection models created for the underwater target detection software demonstration on the RivGen turbine project and to reproduce the performance metric...

Joslin, J. et al MarineSitu

Dec 17, 2024
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Next Generation RivGen Power System: Kvichak River, AK Overwinter Ice Study

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Alaska Hydrokinetic Energy Research Center was tasked with developing a real-time data telemetry / remote power generation system to monitor frazil ice conditions in the Kvichak River in support of the U.S. Department of Energy funded "Next...

Kasper, J. et al Igiugig Village Council

Oct 04, 2017
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TEAMER: Supporting model output files for Environmental Compliance Framework for Floating Tidal Turbines, Cook Inlet, AK

Orbital Marine Power (Orbital) is seeking to deploy their floating tidal technology in US waters and has considered the possibility of deploying in temperate waters including the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and the Western Passage, Maine. It has become apparent that some of the most p...

Wang, T. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mar 01, 2023
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The PNNL-TUNAMELT Dataset for Automated Detection around Marine Energy Devices

This labeled dataset released in the publication "PNNL-TUNAMELT: Towards automating the detection of interactions with marine energy devices" consists of 107451 labeled, acoustic camera video frames capturing marine life interactions around an underwater tidal turbine. The video f...

Nowak, T. et al Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jun 01, 2025
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Current Energy Harnessing using Synergistic Kinematics of Schools of Fish-Shaped Bodies: Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory Tank Testing Data

The objectives of the proposed work pertain to building a high power-density and high efficiency device to harness MHK energy by mimicking fish-school kinematics. Vortex Hydro Energy is collaborating with a concept formed and undergone preliminary testing at the University of Mich...

Bernitsas, M. Vortex Hydro Energy

Apr 11, 2017
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Reference Model 4 Full Scale Geometry (RM4: Ocean Current Turbine)

Contains the Reference Model 4 (RM4) full scale geometry files of the Ocean Current Turbine, developed by the Reference Model Project (RMP). These full scale geometry files are saved as SolidWorks assembly, IGS, X_T, and STEP files, and require a CAD program to view. This data was...

Neary, V. et al Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 30, 2014
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AeroDyn V15.04: Design Tool for Wind and MHK Turbines

AeroDyn is a time-domain wind and MHK turbine aerodynamics module that can be coupled into the FAST version 8 multi-physics engineering tool to enable aero-elastic simulation of horizontal-axis wind turbines. AeroDyn V15.04 has been updated to include a cavitation check for MHK tu...

Murray, R. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Apr 28, 2017
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TEAMER: DAISY Variant and Tether Tests, Admirality Inlet, WA

Acoustic data and metadata from Drifting Acoustic Instrumentation SYstem (DAISY) testing in Admiralty Inlet (connecting Puget Sound to the Strait of San Juan de Fuca) in July 2022. Tests focused on occurrences of flow noise for three hydrophone package variants and on the potentia...

Crisp, C. et al University of Washington

Jul 14, 2022
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Reference Model 2 Scaled Geometry (RM2: River Current Turbine)

Contains the Reference Model 2 (RM2) scaled scale geometry files of the River Current Turbine, developed by the Reference Model Project (RMP). These scaled geometry files are saved as SolidWorks assembly, IGS, and STEP files, and require a CAD program to view. The scaled RM2 devic...

Neary, V. and Hill, C. Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 30, 2014
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Reference Model 1 Scaled Geometry (RM1: Tidal Current Turbine)

Contains the Reference Model 1 (RM1) scaled scale geometry files of the Tidal Current Turbine, developed by the Reference Model Project (RMP). These scaled geometry files are saved as SolidWorks assembly, IGS, and STEP files, and require a CAD program to view. The scaled RM1 devic...

Neary, V. and Hill, C. Sandia National Laboratories

Sep 30, 2014
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MOIS LabVIEW Software

Software developed in LabVIEW for the Modular Ocean Instrumentation System (MOIS) is provided. Two documents: MOIS User's Guide and MOIS Software Developer's Guide are included in the submission.

Nelson, E. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 03, 2015
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Competing Use Analysis for Offshore Renewables and Subsea Cables

Demand for abundant and diverse resources in the oceans is growing, necessitating marine spatial planning. To inform development of Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) and Offshore Wind (OSW) resources, the Department of Energy (DOE) has asked NREL to identify the competing uses areas betwe...

Best, B. and Kilcher, L. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Aug 29, 2019
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UNH TDP ADV Raw Data and Processing Scripts Fall 2021

This submission contains raw Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) data and processing scripts associated with MHKDR submission 394 (UNH TDP Concurrent Measurements of Inflow, Power Performance, and Loads for a Grid-Synchronized Vertical Axis Cross-Flow Turbine Operating in a Tidal E...

Bharath, A. et al National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Dec 21, 2021
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UNH TDP Voltsys Raw Data and Processing Scripts Fall 2021

This submission contains raw Voltsys rectifier data and processing scripts associated with MHKDR submission 394 (UNH TDP Concurrent Measurements of Inflow, Power Performance, and Loads for a Grid-Synchronized Vertical Axis Cross-Flow Turbine Operating in a Tidal Estuary, DOI: 10.1...