Spatial and Temporal Measurements of Benthic Optical Properties

Abstract

This work was an initial design of a sensor system to measure profiles of optical properties at high spatial and temporal resolution just above the sea bottom. The sensor system, called the Benthic Stationary Autonomous Profiler (BSAP), consists of a surface buoy and a bottom tripod containing sensors that measure surface spectral downwelling irradiance and upwelling radiance, and plane and scalar irradiances and radiance near the bottom. This initial design work was completed under a subcontract to HOBI Labs, which is continuing with the construction of the instrument under separate funding.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA362432

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People

  • Curtis D. Mobley
  • Robert A. Maffione

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Climate Change
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Productivity
  • Radiance
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Reflectance
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scattering
  • Sediments
  • Shallow Water

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  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Software Engineering