Integrated Coastal Observation System (ICOS)

Abstract

The long-term goal is to enhance present capabilities in coastal marine observations by incorporating in situ biological, chemical, and physical sensors in an undulating vehicle with a mobile, sea-going laboratory van capable of further analysis of critical seawater properties in support of optical and acoustic studies carried out by the Office of Naval Research. This mobile lab/undulating vehicle system will be capable of rapid, high resolution, simultaneous measurement of key fields such as temperature, salinity, depth, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, dissolved organic matter, chlorophyll, particle size distributions, and particle (plankton) composition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA626573

Entities

People

  • G. B. Gardner
  • Juanita Urban-rich
  • Meng Zhou
  • Robert F. Chen

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Boston

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Ecology
  • High Resolution
  • Instrumentation
  • Marine Biology
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Laboratories
  • Observation
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Plankton
  • Social Sciences
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Oceanography.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.