Other Manufacturers

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Buoys / System Integration

• Axys Technologies
  Design, manufacturing, and maintenance of data acquisition, processing, and telemetry systems.
• Coastal Environmental Systems
  Controllers, data loggers, and telemetry packages that take data from a variety of sensors and then process, store, and/or telemeter the data. Many telemetry methods are available (Radio, Cell phone, Telephone, Satellite, etc.). Coastal has many years of experience in integrating a wide variety of sensors (including Sea-Bird). The controller/loggers can process anything from simple analog inputs to multi-drop addressable serial sensor arrays. Processing can range from simple averages to full FFTs.
• Down East Instrumentation
  Buoy systems.
• Fastwave
  Integrated, real-time Sea-Bird / WET Labs sensor data acquisition and telemetry system that allows instrumentation to be located on the seabed. Sea-Bird Inductive Modem (IM) system / Iridium telemetry integration. On-line data processing, display, and management system.
• Fugro OCEANOR
  Buoy systems.
• METOCEAN Data Systems Limited
  Buoy systems.
• Mooring Systems Inc. (MSI)
  Custom mooring designs, as well as fabricating complete mooring systems from buoy to anchor. MSI specializes in wire rope and synthetic line assemblies, anchors, instrument frames, pressure housings, and a wide range of compatible hardware.
• OceanScience
  Deployment solutions for oceanographic instruments, including surface buoys, subsurface buoys, trawl-resistant seafloor landers, and high-quality syntactic foam. OceanScience focuses on using modern materials and processes to provide rugged, corrosion-resistant, reliable instrument platforms.
• RDSea International
  Technology, methodology, and services for collecting critical data on observation platforms, systems, and programs.

AUVs / ROVs / Gliders / Profilers

• Bluefin
  AUVs, specializing in flexible vehicles that can carry a wide range of sensors such as CTDs, Multi-Beam and Side-Scan Sonars, and Sub-Bottom Profilers.
• Hydroid
  AUVs.
• Liquid Robotics
  Wave-powered gliders.
• McLane Research Laboratories
  Moored Profiler (MMP) autonomously profiles the water column along a fixed tether while carrying a selection of oceanographic sensors. The MMP can be equipped with an SBE 52-MP Moored Profiler CTD with optional DO sensor.
• ODIM Brooke Ocean Ltd.
  SeaHorse is a moored wave-powered profiler that uses wave action to power a profiling platform down a taut mooring wire. The SeaHorse can be configured to collect ocean data profiles using an SBE 19 that is equipped to measure CTD, fluorometry, turbidity, and optical characteristics.
• Teledyne Webb Research
  Gliders.
• Teledyne Gavia Ltd.
  Small AUVs for research, deep-water surveying, monitoring, or surveillance.

Sensors / Instruments

• Nortek AS
  Aquadopp shallow and deep water current meters can supply power and receive data (RS-232) from Sea-Bird's MicroCAT C-T sensors (SBE 37-SM, 37-SI). Configuration and testing is done with Nortek software and the C-T data are stored in the Aquadopp for post-processing. The Aquadopp can also be integrated with a Sea-Bird Inductive Modem Module (IMM), allowing the Aquadopp to communicate via Sea-Bird's inductive modem telemetry.
• Pro-Oceanus Systems
  Dissolved gas sensors, including O2, N2, and dissolved air (gas tension). Sensors can provide measurements for up to a year, with a maximum operating depth of 500 m. Gas Tension Device sensors (GTDs) can be accommodated on a Sea-Bird moored CTD (SBE 16plus V2 or 16plus-IM V2).
• RESON
  Multibeam echosounders and forward-looking sonars, acoustic transducers and reference hydrophones, acoustic calibration systems, and homogenizers.
• Satlantic (a Sea-Bird Scientific company)
  Complete range of active and passive optical radiometers, as well as instrumentation for real-time in-situ nitrate measurements and advanced systems for variable chlorophyll fluorescence analysis. Satlantic also provides instrument integration, and water quality monitoring systems that enable real-time operational decision making.
• Sequoia Scientific
  Optical instruments for use in sediment transport and optical oceanography research -- LISST-25 Total Suspended Sediment Sensor, LISST-100 Particle Size Analyzer, HydroLight Version 4.0 Radiative Transfer Model.
• State University of New York, Ocean Instrument Laboratory
  MSRC Vortex de-bubbler (used by some Sea-Bird customers with SBE 21 or SBE 45 Thermosalinograph).
• Sontek
  Acoustic Doppler water velocity sensors for ocean, rivers, lakes, and laboratory. In addition to profilers suitable for a wide range of applications, Sontek produces instruments for measurement of directional wave spectra, river discharge, estuarine and nearshore flow, turbulence, and deep-sea currents.
• Teledyne RD Instruments
  Velocity measurement of water currents and vessel speed. RDI Doppler Volume Sampler (DVS) is available with Sea-Bird's Inductive Modem Module (IMM) and high precision temperature sensor. RDI ADCPs (Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers) are used in oceanography, hydrology, limnology, circulation modeling, wave gauging, and open and closed channel discharge measurement. Precise navigation information for underwater vehicles is provided by the RDI DVL (Doppler Velocity Log).
• WET Labs, Inc. (a Sea-Bird Scientific company)
  - Fluorometers, transmissometers, scattering sensors, and spectrophotometers.
  - Water Quality Monitor (WQM) and WQMx, co-developed with Sea-Bird, combining CTD, Dissolved Oxygen, Chlorophyll, Turbidity, and Backscattering (WQMx only) sensors with an innovative strategy of active and passive anti-fouling measures. Details about Sea-Bird's development and testing of the WQM. WET Labs information -- specifications, manual, etc. Also see product configuration information for WQM and WQMx.

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