Exposure. A Newsletter for Ocean Technologists, Volume 9, Number 4,
Abstract
This issue of Exposure is composed of the complete text of the Serial ASCII Instrumentation Loop (SAIL) data communications standard as drafted by technical members of the marine research community. Research vessels operating in the federal and university research communities are not outfitted with a common digital methodology to access or exchange operational data. to a large extent, science leadership is based on the widespread availability of instrumentation. In an earlier era, marine scientists could make fundamental discoveries with the equivalent of sealing wax and string. Today, an occasional worthwhile observation is made with simple tools, but the more significant advances now depend on the application of complex instrumentation. In most instances, new instrumentation techniques make possible a tenfold or greater speed in data collections, and in other instances make possible the measurements for experiments before inaccessible. Although this standard has other instrumentation applications, it is presented as one candidate specifically for intravessel digital data communications from sensors that monitor vessel parameters (position, speed, heading, etc.). The marine research community is very diffuse geographically and in research interests, which has partially contributed to the slow development of standard design criteria. However, standardization contributes to efficiency and technology dissemination because standards form the root words of a language for technical information transfer. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA107104
Entities
People
- Roderick S. Mesecar
Organizations
- Oregon State University