When custom metocean products are required
Custom products are typically developed where decisions depend on conditions that standard datasets cannot adequately represent, including:
- Complex coastal or undersea environments
- Safety‑critical or assurance‑driven operations
- Novel technologies or platforms
- Emerging standards and regulatory frameworks
- High‑performance or time‑sensitive missions
These products are designed to support real‑world decisions and analysis.
What custom metocean products can include
Tidetech’s custom product capability spans the full modelling and delivery pipeline, allowing products to be built around specific needs rather than fixed formats.
Custom products may include:
- Bespoke tidal and current models for defined regions
- S‑100 aligned datasets (including S‑104 water levels and S‑111 surface currents)
- Custom hindcasts and scenario‑based datasets
- Undersea flow models at varying depths
- Derived datasets optimised for specific platforms or workflows
- Integration‑ready outputs for OEM, defence or regulatory systems
Each product is designed, validated and delivered for its intended operational context.
Examples of custom applications
Tidetech’s custom products support a wide range of specialised maritime use cases, including:
- Standards development and trials
Custom S‑104 and S‑111 datasets developed to support S‑100 trials with national hydrographic offices - Undersea, subsea and coastal operations
Models developed to support planning and risk assessment for undersea cable laying and shore-ending - Defence and specialist platforms
Bespoke metocean products designed for integration into advanced maritime and undersea systems - Elite and professional sailing
High‑resolution tidal and current models developed for Olympic sailing campaigns, round‑the‑world racing, and the America’s Cup
These examples illustrate the breadth of applications, not the limits of what can be built.
Designed as operational and explorative products
Custom products are developed with the same discipline as Tidetech’s core datasets.
They are:
- Scientifically robust and defensible
- Designed for operational and explorative use
- Delivered in formats suited to integration and automation
- Supported over time, not handed over as static artefacts
This ensures custom products behave consistently alongside standard Tidetech datasets.
Collaboration and delivery
Custom products are developed collaboratively, with clear definition of:
- Operational objectives and decision context
- Spatial and temporal requirements
- Integration targets and delivery formats
- Validation and assurance needs
Delivery options include gridded datasets and standards‑aligned services, depending on the application.
Scientific validation and assurance
All custom products are developed by Tidetech’s oceanographers and specialist developers using validated hydrodynamic modelling, observational data and domain expertise.
They are reviewed, tested and validated to ensure they meet the technical and operational standards required for their intended use.
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Next steps
Discuss a custom metocean product for your application.
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