Arctic Remote Autonomous Measurement Platform Post CEAREX Engineering Report

A series of instrumented Arctic buoys has been developed. The buoys are designed to be deployed in pack ice to measure and record data from meteorological and ocean sensors as well as from an accelerometer inside the buoy. Sophisticated in situ data processing is performed reducing the data capacity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peal, K. R.
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1990
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
Recording and Playback Devices
*COMPUTER PROGRAMS
MEASUREMENT
OPTICAL EQUIPMENT
ENVIRONMENTS
DETECTORS
ACCELEROMETERS
CAPACITY(QUANTITY)
ACOUSTIC WAVES
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
FREQUENCY BANDS
SPECTRA
ENGINEERING
DEFICIENCIES
INSTRUMENTATION
RECORDING SYSTEMS
DISKS
METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS
OCEANS
OPTICAL STORAGE
ARCTIC REGIONS
BUOYS
PACK ICE
DATA PROCESSING
*DISK RECODING SYSTEMS
ARAMP(ARCTIC REMOTE AUTONOMOUS MEASUREMENT PLATFORM)
OPTICAL DISK RECORDERS
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
METEOROLOGICAL DATA
ACOUSTIC DATA
SELF OPERATION
Arctic
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA232843
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA232843
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Summary:A series of instrumented Arctic buoys has been developed. The buoys are designed to be deployed in pack ice to measure and record data from meteorological and ocean sensors as well as from an accelerometer inside the buoy. Sophisticated in situ data processing is performed reducing the data capacity required for the system's optical disk recorder. Engineering development is described which aimed to identify and solve performance problems related to hardware and software deficiencies. One of the major hardware problems was that the optical disk was unreliable when exposed to the Arctic environment. Redesign was performed to insulate parts of the system from the cold. The test and evaluation sequence is described as well as the present status of all portions of the system. Sample field data are presented including multiband acoustic spectra as well as time series environmental data.

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