Autonomous Drifting Ocean Station (ADOS) Clearwater Instrumentation, Inc. Watertown, MA

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Autonomous Drifting Ocean Station
(ADOS)Clearwater Instrumentation,
Inc.Watertown, MA
Small Business Innovation Research

INNOVATION Developed highly-integrated,
inexpensive ocean observing platform.

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Low-cost drifter platform that can be used to
  gather an enhanced suite of data that is
  essential for integrating present and future
  satellite measurements of biological and physical
  processes with in situ observations.
• Combines ocean color, surface layer thermal
  structure, and surface winds sensing elements.
• Provides research and observational communities a
  multi-parameter observing system with products
  that can be shared by many programs, thus
  decreasing costs to each program.
• Achieves low-cost and greatly improved durability
  by placing autonomous subsurface sensors on
  inexpensive, robust steel hydrographic wire and
  facilitating communications between the surface
  instruments and subsurface components with
  inductive modem technology.
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• Potential utilization for research and applied
  science such as fisheries biology, both in the
  United States and abroad.

Autonomous Drifting Ocean Station (ADOS)

• GOVERNMENT SCIENCE/APPLICATIONS
• A NASA scientific project has recently been
  funded to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  requiring use of the ADOS. Twenty-four buoys
  will be produced and deployed.
• Possible application for use by the Naval
  Oceanographic Office.

Points of Contact - NASA - Chet Koblinsky
301.614.5697 - Clearwater Instr. Inc. - W.
Gary Williams 617.924.2708
Goddard Space Flight Center
1996 Phase II, SS5-044 9/13/00