PALACE Drifters and the Global Cellular Network

Abstract

Profiling floats have been used in recent years to study the upper ocean circulation throughout the world's oceans, and there are future plans for several large experiments using these floats. At present, these instruments communicate using the ARGOS system. However, this system is very slow and only one-way communication is possible. Both the Iridium and Orbcomm systems appeared when this work was proposed to be promising successors to ARGOS, and the objective of this work was to build a prototype PALACE and/or Orbcomm float capable of taking advantage of these new systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 12, 2001
Accession Number
ADA391256

Entities

People

  • Stephen Riser

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bankruptcy
  • Cellular Networks
  • Communication Networks
  • Cost Estimates
  • Data Transmission
  • Department Of Defense
  • Global Communications
  • Information Operations
  • Information Transfer
  • Japan Sea
  • Military Research
  • Networks
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Prototypes
  • Signal Generators

Readers

  • Oceanography.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design