National observation infrastructure: an example of a fixed-plateforms network along the French Coast: COAST HF

Since the eighties, several French organizations (Ifremer, CNRS, and marines universities) have joined their forces to operate the first high frequency automated network around France. Now days, 14 Instrumented platforms are in operation along the North Sea, the Atlantic and Mediterranean French coasts. Furthermore, this organization is now largely contributing to the French national Research Infrastructure named "I.R. ILICO".