Our mission
The mission of SCOOP is to support the cost-effective marine observation community to reach its full potential, and in this way to lower the financial threshold to observe the ocean. We do this by bringing together all experts working on/with marine cost-efficient sensors: device developers, data management experts, producers, industry, researchers and all device users.
As a first step, we will offer a catalogue of devices in various stages of maturity: from promising new concepts not available on the market to products commercially available at very low price, via tools available as DIY kit. We also highlight a wide diverse range of people using cost-effective sensors: from scientists to fishermen, via school kids and scuba divers.. This work will bring developers, producers (or financers) and users closer together. At the same time, we work with developers and device users to optimise their dataflows, and make sure that all data being collected are accessible and available.