Data Buoy Cooperation Panel Iridium Pilot Project
http://www.ocean-ops.org/dbcp/iridium-pp

Testing Iridium Satellite Telecommunications for Drifting Buoys

Country	Agency	Contact	Deployments	Upgrades
France	Meteo France	Pierre Blouch	100 on order	9 plus 3 for communications costs (Pacific Gyre Buoys)
UK	SAMS UK MetOffice	David Meldrum Jon Turton	SAMS 6 (Marlin-Yug,Technocean) UK MO - 7 (Metocean )	6 7
Canada	Environment Canada	Yvonne Cook	5 (Metocean)	5
USA	AOML NDBC Navoceano Pacific Gyre	Shaun Dolk Bill Burnett ? -	10 planned ? 2 3	? ? ? -
Australia	BOM	G. Ball	2	?
New Zealand	Met Service	Julie Fletcher	~2 in 2009	TBA
India	NIOT, INCOIS	Ravichandran	10 (Clearwater)	10