Systems and Sensors
Standard Sensors
Vehicle Sensors
- Pressure: Paroscientific 8B7000-I, Digiquartz depth sensor, rated to 7,000 m. (23,000 ft)
- Doppler Velocity Logger (DVL): RDI, 300kHz or 1200 kHz
- Attitude sensors (pitch, roll, heading-internal)
- PHINS inertial navigation (internal)
Geophysical Sensors
- Multibeam mapping sonar: Kongsberg EM2040, 200Khz, 400Khz, 600Khz.
- Edgetech 4 kHz to 20 kHz = 4-24 kHz chirp subbottom profiler
- Three high precision, digital, APS 3-axis fluxgate magnetometers; 2 mounted midships (port, starboard) in a horizontal gradient mode and a 3rd mounted centrally within the vehicle above the other two in a vertical gradient mode.
Oceanographic Sensors
- CTD sensor: Seabird 49
- Optical Backscatter (OBS): Seapoint Turbidity Meter
- Seafloor photography: Prosilica GC-1380C Digital Still Camera (1Kx1K, 12 bit color still camera with strobe, rated to 6,000 meters)
- Oxygen Sensor: Aandara Optode
- NOAA ORP (oxidation-reduction potential) sensor
Scientific Equipment Interfaces
Digital: | RS232 standard ports available (300 through 115,200 Baud) |
Power: | 12, 24 and 48 VDC switched circuits available, custom voltages upon request |
Data: | Instruments can be synced to precision clock (e.g. all the main computer stack, imaging stack, multibeam, sidescan, PHINS gyro are synced) |
** Potentially able to accommodate other digital/power formats and/or quantities.
All science gear connections must be worked out during the pre-cruise process.
Project-specific sensors interfaced to Sentry by PIs during previous cruises
- Eh electrode (redox sensor) – Dr. Koichi Nakamura, Japan
- TETHYS (in situ mass spectrometer) - Dr. Rich Camilli, WHOI, USA
- SUPR Biological Sampler – Dr. Chip Breier, WHOI, USA
- SyPRID Sampler, Large volume, high-resolution, autonomous, deep ocean precision Plankton Sampler