A New Mooring Controller platform: an evolution of the OASIS instrument controller toward a distributed ocean observing system

Author

Meese, Timothy ; Edgington, Duane R. ; Radochonski, Wayne ; Headley, Kent ; Jensen, Scott

Author_Institution

Monterey Bay Aquarium Res. Inst., Moss Landing, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1296

Abstract

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is a privately funded, non-profit research institute dedicated to technology development in support of the oceanographic community. The New Mooring Controller (NMC) project was begun at MBARI in the fall of 2000 to develop the next evolutionary step to the current OASIS mooring controller. The NMC design features a low-power 32-bit embedded processor and incorporates advanced embedded software technologies. This paper focuses on the system requirements and design decisions that were made regarding system hardware and software

Keywords

geophysics computing; oceanographic equipment; telemetry; MBARI; Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; Mooring Controller Platform; NMC; New Mooring Controller; OASIS; distributed ocean observing system; equipment; hardware; instrument; instrument tontroller; measurement technique; ocean; software; telemetry; Acoustic sensors; Control systems; Embedded software; Evolution (biology); Gas detectors; Instruments; Ocean temperature; Reduced instruction set computing; Sensor systems; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS, 2001. MTS/IEEE Conference and Exhibition

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-933957-28-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2001.968297

Filename

968297