Development of an Air-Deployable Ocean Profiler

Abstract

Our goal is to develop an air-deployable ocean profiler (ADOP) that will make it feasible to rapidly deploy regional upper-ocean observing arrays. This project's objective is to develop ADOP to be deployed from aircraft through an A-sized (4.875 inch diameter, 36 inches long) sonobuoy tube. The performance goal is 200 dives to 500 m depth with a scientific payload of 1 kg. The float will use Iridium communication and GPS locating while at the surface. ADOP is intended to be the basis for air-deployed arrays that establish persistent area surveillance over regions O(100 km) on a side without post-deployment maintenance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA542710

Entities

People

  • Russ E. Davis

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Antennas
  • Buoyancy
  • Deployment
  • Depth
  • Detectors
  • Dipole Antennas
  • Energy
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Field Tests
  • Floats
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanical Structure
  • Oceans
  • Parachutes
  • Radiation Patterns

Readers

  • Materials Science
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites