The Deep Submergence Laboratory is developing a deep ocean survey and instrument platform called ARGO. With a design depth of 6.000 meters, ARGO will be towed on a steel-armored coaxial cable which will support several channels of frequency-multiplexed signals. A bank of TV cameras in the imaging pod will provide forward-, side-, and down-looking views of the ocean floor. Strobe lighting and LIBEC geometry will extend the useful range of these cameras to 100 meters. High fidelity acoustic images will be provided by an integrated side-looking sonar. Our goal is to create a cohesive and overlapping data set of wide swath acoustic images and high resolution optical images. Presented here are early results of ARGO-like vehicle towing characteristics and 'snap-shot' video systems. Additionally, we will describe ARGO's modular design approach which affords us the flexibility to incorporate, in the future, additional sensing systems and a smaller, tethered ROV, JASON.


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    Title :

    Development status: ARGO deep ocean instrument platform


    Additional title:

    Entwicklungsstand der Tiefsee-Instrumentenplattform ARGO


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1984


    Size :

    3 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 6 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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