Oceanscience, a world leader in development of oceanographic, hydrographic, and hydrologic deployment equipment designed to save survey time and improve data quality, announces its presentation at the Canadian Hydrographic Conference on May 15-17, 2012 in Niagra Falls, Canada.
Attendees could find innovative ideas to the challenges faced in Arctic hydrography including the Oceanscience UnderwayCTD and UnderwaySV which bring high-quality CTD and SV profiles without having to stop or slow the moving vessel.
The UnderwayCTD provides research grade CTD (conductivity, temperature, and depth) profiles while underway at up to 20kts. The unique freefall profiler offers researchers vertical profiles even as the ship is moving away from the deployment location.
The innovative deployment winch and re-spooling mechanism allows the probe to be recovered and re-launched time after time without ever needing to stop or slow down. Profiles are gathered quickly, allowing excellent spatial resolution for CTD transects.
The UnderwayCTD can be installed on practically any vessel. The small footprint winch can be mounted on a post or rail, and can be set up and operated by one person. The UnderwayCTD components can be transported from ship to ship with ease, making the system ideal for gathering high quality data from vessels of opportunity.
The UnderwaySV offers vertical sound velocity (SV) profiles in minutes, without ever having to stop the survey vessel. The latest Valeport Ltd digital time-of-flight sound velocity measurement technology is combined with the innovative Oceanscience underway sensor deployment system developed for the UnderwayCTD.
The result is a revolutionary tool for hydrographic surveying. Easy to use, portable, compact, and affordable, the Underway SV saves survey time and promotes a better understanding of sound speed variability for optimum survey results. State of the art wireless communication allows profiles to be downloaded to the survey computer automatically as soon as the probe emerges from the water behind the ship, with no operator involvement required.
[mappress] Subsea World News Staff , April 09, 2012; Image: Oceanscience