Title :
A method of planning to launch additional floats, on a cruise, to drift with certain average spaces
Author :
Kakuta, Shinya ; Sasaki, Yasunori
Author_Institution :
Independent Administrative Instn., Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Sci. & Technol., Yokosuka
Abstract :
The scientific mission of the international project ARGO is to build a real-time and high-resolution monitoring system for upper and middle layers of the world ocean, however, an easy to use procedure to determine the points to launch ARGO floats with a certain spacing must be established. This paper proposes the method to determine the next launching point successively, considering the number density and distances among the floats previously deployed. This method is easy to adopt even when the cruise track is curved or broken
Keywords :
oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; ARGO floats; cruise track; launching point; monitoring system; number density; world ocean; Lab-on-a-chip; Marine technology; Marine vehicles; Meteorology; Oceans; Space technology; Technology planning;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '04. MTTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN '04
Conference_Location :
Kobe
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8669-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405780
