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Systems and Sensors

Acoustic Sensors

Navigation:

  • Sonardyne RangerPro USBL Navigation
  • 7 - 12 kHz, vehicle powered or battery operated for emergency location
  • RDI Doppler Velocity Log 1200 kHz with 30m bottom lock range or 300 kHz with 100m bottom lock range

Used for closed-loop controlled dynamic positioning

  • Reson SeaBat 7125 Multi-Beam Sonar

Vehicle Sensors

Attitude and Heading:

  • Fiber optic north-seeking gyro Pressure Sensor: Paroscientific

Altimeter:

  • 300 kHz, 100 meter (328 feet) range, and 1200 kHz, 30 meter (98.4 feet) range

Imaging

4K UHD video camera with 20MP still capability and Mini Zeus HD Video cameras with file-based data storage system

Standard  camera Configuration:

  • Scientist’s pan and tilt: Mini Zeus HD camera, 4K UHD still camera with 20MP still capability
  • Pilot’s pan and tilt: Mini Zeus HD camera
  • Light bar: pan and tilt with Mini Zeus HD camera
  • Utility Color camera: manipulators, basket, aft looking, and aft pan and tilt

Lighting

  • Twelve forward LED lights, providing approximately 80,000 lumens
  • Two aft LED lights, providing approximately 10,000 lumens

Manipulators/Sampling (see also Sampling Equipment)

Two Schilling Titan 4

Elevator Sampler - mission configurable

Scientific Equipment Interfaces

ROV Jason can accommodate wide variety of user-supplied equipment.

All science gear connections (and pressure certification where necessary) must be worked out during the pre-cruise process.

Please contact: jason-precruise@whoi.edu

Jason

Digital: Minimum four RS-232 (up to 115kbaud). One Ethernet (10/100).
Power: Multiple 24 and one 240Vdc switched circuits.
Video:  One composite analog.

** Potentially able to accommodate other digital/video/power formats and/or quantities.

Medea

Digital: Multiple RS-232 (up to 115kbaud). One Ethernet (10/100)
Power:  Multiple 24 and one 240Vdc switched circuits.
Video: One composite analog.