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Highly advanced monitoring instrumentation
will be the theme for YSI's participation at 'Ocean Business 2009'
in Southampton, 31st March to 2nd April 2009.
The company will demonstrate two revolutionary
technologies; the 'EcoMapper' a remote control underwater vehicle
for plotting water quality over wide areas and a multiparameter
monitoring platform that has been developed as part of two EU funded
research projects.
The 'EcoMapper' is a unique remote monitoring system which only
requires one person to deploy and retrieve, has integrated water
quality sensors, intuitive mission planning software, and weighs
less than 21Kg. It is ideal for routine mapping of lakes, reservoirs,
rivers, estuaries and near-coastal environments.
The EcoMapper dataset is also unique, offering extremely high spatial
resolution of the key physicochemical water quality parameters in
addition to chlorophyll and blue-green algae fluorometers, a depth
sounder and optional side-scan sonar. Typical vehicle speeds are
2-4 knots and mission times can range up to 10 hours, providing
detailed maps of water quality and bathymetry.
'WARMER' and 'InterRisk' are two research projects that, driven
by the Water Framework Directive, have developed multiparameter
water quality and flow data collection platforms that transmit data
via satellite to improve risk management for accidental spills,
algal blooms and other marine pollution events. YSI has been heavily
involved in this work and will demonstrate the monitoring platform
during a workshop organised by the two projects. The workshop will
take place on 30th March immediately prior to the Ocean Business
2009 event - delegate places are limited to 75 and will be allocated
on a first-come, first-served basis to those that register by sending
their contact details to europe@ysi.com .
YSI will also display a wide range of portable, fixed and buoy
mounted water monitors on stand T2 at the Ocean Business event.
The EcoMapper is also avaialable for hire - click
here for details
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