Undersea Television Viewing in the 1980´s

Author

Kopsho, Joseph D.

Author_Institution

Hydro Products, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

1980

fDate

8-10 Sept. 1980

Firstpage

445

Lastpage

447

Abstract

Oceanographers and those engaged in offshore oil exploration and deep ocean mining surveys, as well as military agencies such as the U.S. Navy are well aware of the usefulness of underwater television systems developed over the past four decades. Evolution, rather than revolution, has led to today´s small highly reliable underwater television cameras now being used in diverse applications. The recent advantages in monolithic large scale integrated circuit technology will allow the rapid development of high performance miniature television cameras and related equipment for underwater real time viewing in both black-and-white and color with high resolution. Frame grab and store techniques, optical fiber transmission, and bandwidth compression will allow multiple camera high resolution viewing at great ocean depths.

Keywords

geophysical prospecting; mining; oceanographic equipment; optical fibres; television cameras; bandwidth compression analysis; deep ocean mining survey; frame grab technique; high performance miniature television camera; high resolution camera; monolithic large scale integrated circuit technology; offshore oil exploration; optical fiber transmission; underwater real time viewing process; underwater television camera; underwater television system; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Code standards; Consumer electronics; Costs; Large scale integration; Lenses; Solid state circuits; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '80

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1980.1151353

Filename

1151353