Low Cost Modular Telemetry for Coastal Time-series Data

Abstract

Our goal is to develop and demonstrate a low-cost system for retrieving oceanographic data from instruments in the coastal ocean and delivering these data in near real time. This work is conducted under the National Ocean Partnership Program with Federal, State, Academic and private industry participation and funding. We wish to develop and demonstrate a low-cost modular system for telemetering oceanographic data ashore. The system consists of 4 components: (1) a low-cost, medium bandwidth acoustic data link from oceanographic instruments below the surface to a surface buoy; (2) an acoustic modem/RF link to receive the acoustic transmissions and telemeter data to shore; (3) a buoy system for deployment of the acoustic modem/RF link, and (4) a system for distributing the data over the World Wide Web.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA544770

Entities

People

  • Bradford Butman
  • Daniel E. Frye
  • W. Rockwell Geyer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Coast Guard
  • Communication Systems
  • Data Links
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Geological Surveys
  • High Reliability
  • Line Of Sight
  • Massachusetts Bay
  • Monitoring
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Shores
  • Telemetry
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers