Hardware/software package for CTD data acquisition with a Neil Brown CTD

Author

Nebert, David ; Saklad, Howard ; Mimken, Gil

Author_Institution

Inst. of Marine Sci., Alaska Univ., Fairbanks, AK, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

31 Oct-2 Nov 1988

Firstpage

1621

Abstract

Summary form only given. The Institute of Marine Science (IMS) at the University of Alaska has built a low-cost hardware/software CTD system (conductivity, temperature, depth) measurement to replace an aging Neil Brown CTD deck unit and 9 track tape drive. The new IMS CTD Deck System includes a commercial power supply, a small hardware package, and microcomputer software which provides enhanced features such as data acquisition concurrent with real-time computer screen plotting of the cast. The package demonstrates that a versatile, reliable, computer-based system can provide low-cost redundancy and serve most CTD data collection needs

Keywords

computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; geophysics computing; microcomputer applications; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; spatial variables measurement; temperature measurement; Institute of Marine Science; Neil Brown CTD; University of Alaska; computer hardware; conductivity temperature depth; data acquisition; low-cost; measurement technique; microcomputer; ocean; software package; thermal structure; Aging; Conductivity measurement; Data acquisition; Hardware; Packaging; Power supplies; Software measurement; Software packages; Software systems; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '88. A Partnership of Marine Interests. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1988.23778

Filename

23778