Puertos del Estado has developed and maintains systems for the measurement and forecasting of the marine environment with the main objective of providing the Spanish Port System with the ocean and meteorological data essential for their design and operation, allowing for reduced costs and increased efficiency, sustainability and safety of port operations.
The benefits of this activity are not solely limited to the port environment, instead it also intends to be a service open to society and other institutions. This is mainly provided through the Puertos del Estado website and the Imar application for mobile devices, available on
iOS and
Android
The system consists of measurement networks (buoys, tidal gauges and high frequency radars), forecasting services (waves, sea level, currents and water temperature) and climatic sets, which describe both the current maritime climates and change scenarios for the 21st century.