THE TECHNOLOGY AT THE CORE OF THE ORGANIZATION
  The
SeaKeeper 1000™
Computer
and Instrument Enclosures
Meteorological
Station
Vessel's
Water Intake and Antifouling Device
Through-hull
gate valves
The
SeaKeepers Modular Automated Ocean and Meteorological Data Acquisition
System, now known as the SeaKeeper 1000™, is breakthrough technology
that fulfills an urgent need for an unmanned, economical, automatic water
and weather measurement device. The SK1000 has many innovative features.
First, it is capable of monitoring both air and sea conditions simultaneously
and sending that data bundled to facilitate understanding of weather
patterns. Second is its visionary mode of deployment aboard yachts, and
ships, which supply its minimal power needs and provide a platform for
data transmission. Third, is its seamless, automated method of sampling
and sending a continuous stream of data independent of other shipboard
electronics and without aid of shipboard personnel. Finally, its modular,
standardized architecture allows installation of different combination
of sensors.
The SeaKeeper 1000 is currently deployed on a wide variety of platform:
vessels, piers, buoys, and lighthouses. It can provide customizable real-time
displays of environmental conditions on a local computer network, while
automatically transmitting to the National Weather Services worldwide
via satellite on a regular schedule for us in global weather forecasting
as part of the Volunteer Observing Ships (VOS) program. High resolution
(once a minute) data is written to the hard drive and can be periodically
downloaded during service visits, Data is alo accessible via the internet
or alternate communication methods.
The standard SeaKeeper 1000 package includes a NEMA4 enclosure for the
computer and INMARSAT C transceiver, an instrument enclosure for the
modular oceanographic sensors, and a pair of through-hull valves.
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