The Aqualog moored profiling carrier collects regular time series of vertical profiles of ocean environmental data at a fixed geographic position over extended periods of time.
The profiler is equipped with conventional oceanographic probes and makes repeated round trips up and down a taut mooring wire between the subsurface flotation and the anchor while maintaining a stable orientation with respect to the current direction.
When compared to traditional moorings, which use multiple instruments at fixed depths, the profiler acts as a lift for a single set of third-party sensors thus increasing the vertical resolution of the data while decreasing operational costs and optimizing value.
- Applications: operational oceanography, global change climate research, environmental monitoring, polar oceanography.
- Sensors: oceanographic sensors integrated on the profiler
- Data: samples of data
- Areas: regions of work
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- Support: technical support, FAQ, downloads, consultations, training
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- See also: specifications
The GPRS buoy serves for the data and command exchange between the mooring and a user via Internet. Also with the Aqulog profiler can be used the radio buoy which transmits the observational data and telemetry information from the mooring to the coastal station. In return, it receives commands from the coastal station.
The Aqualog Profiler can accommodate a hydroacoustic Benthos ATM modem to transmit the data and the telemetric information. Data is transferred real-time to the subsurface flotation by using inductive modems. Then the tether transmits the information from the subsurface flotation to the surface buoy.
The proprietary Aqualog software allows the user to establish an automatic operation algorithm (start time and interval of profiles, working depths, sampling frequency, etc.) in line with the modern adaptive sampling approach to ocean observations.
