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Article: Third generation current profiler simplifies port monitoring
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- Sea Technology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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CopyrightCopyright Compass Publications, Inc. Oct 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Compact New Current Profiler Speeds Buoy Retrofit for Real-Time Data
Doppler current profilers are becoming progressively smaller, better, and easier to use. Their first generation, dating to the early 1980s, required two people to carry each unit. The second generation, introduced in the early 1990s, cut both the size and cost in half. Nortek's third generation Aquadopp Current Profiler continues this trend, cutting the size and cost by yet another factor of two.
The same processes that are rapidly improving mobile phones are driving these developments. As with older cell phones, older current profilers require complex and expensive analog electronics. Newer phones replace analog with ...