“LASSI”-Lagoon-Air-Sea-Sediment-Interaction system

Author

Slocum, Daryl B. ; Kraus, Nicholas C. ; Brown, Cheryl A.

Author_Institution

Conrad Blucher Inst. for Surveying & Sci., Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

23-26 Sep 1996

Firstpage

1242

Abstract

Dredging associated with the intracoastal waterway of Texas has raised environmental concerns for the sensitive estuarine and lagoonal waters. The Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has designed and deployed an advanced, remote estuarine processes environmental monitoring system in the fairway of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas. The Lagoon-Air-Sea-Sediment-Interaction (LASSI) data-collection system combines the most recent developments in marine instrumentation with powerful low-power consumption micro-computers, advanced software, specialized batteries, and radio spread-spectrum technology. The LASSI platform, as presently configured, logs 25 channels generating over 120 MB of raw data per week

Keywords

data acquisition; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; seafloor phenomena; sedimentation; sediments; Corpus Christi Bay; Corpus Christi Ship Channel; Gulf of Mexico; LASSI; Lagoon-Air-Sea-Sediment-Interaction; Texas; USA; United States; coastal geomorphology; data logging; data-collection system; equipment; estuary; geophysical measurement technique; instrument; intracoastal waterway; lagoon-air-sea-sediment-interaction system; marine instrumentation; monitoring system; ocean; sea coast; seafloor geology; sedimentation; Batteries; Condition monitoring; Frequency; Instruments; Marine vehicles; Microcomputers; Oceans; Remote monitoring; Sea measurements; Sediments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '96. MTS/IEEE. Prospects for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3519-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1996.569079

Filename

569079