Ultra High Capacity Oceanographic Data Acquisition System

The steadily increasing data acquisition and storage requirements of the oceanographic community are continuously pushing the ability of current technologies to meet its needs. Also, the ocean environment places special demands on instruments, such as low power consumption, low temperatures, and compact packaging. This paper describes a data acquisition and storage system based on a unique high capacity (190 Megabyte) digital tape recorder and low power, high performance electronics, that has been specifically designed to meet the demands of the ocean environment without sacrificing capability or capacity.