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 Still camera and Mini Zues HD Video cameras with file-based data storage system
Standard camera Configuration:
- Scientist’s pan & tilt: Mini- Zues HD camera, 4K UHD Still camera
- Pilot’s pan & tilt: Mini Zues HD camera
- Light bar: pan and tilt with Mini Zues HD camera
- Utility Color camera: Manipulators, Basket, Aft Looking, Down Looking
Lighting
Sixteen 17,700 Lumen LED lights, providing over 283K Lumens Two 250 watt Incandescent
Manipulators/Sampling (see also Sampling Equipment)
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_program@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. |