The project will develop and demonstrate an industrial-scale prototype of a multi-use platform (MUP) with renewable energy generation and operational oceanography capabilities: the FLORA Ocean Station (or FLORA O.S.).

 

Equipped with a novel sensor suite the FLORA O.S. will be deployable as a low-environmental-impact system for bird and biodiversity data acquisition which is critical to Marine Spatial Planning especially the macro siting of offshore-wind parks.