The Marine Measurements Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) product line provides the industry with precision profilers and waves measurement products for estuary, coastal and offshore applications.
From the shallowest stream to the deepest ocean... from a tiny raft to a towering offshore platform ...Teledyne RD Instruments has an acoustic Doppler product ideally suited for your unique current profiling, waves measurement or precision navigation application.
For twenty-five years, Teledyne RDI has consistently delivered the highest quality products, backed by unparalleled customer service and support.
With thousands of ADCP's, wave measurement, and precision navigation products delivered around the globe, you can rest assured that Teledyne RDI has the experience required to ensure success.
Sentinel V ADCP Series
The Sentinel V, the first in Teledyne RDI's series of V products, is loaded with new features and capabilities destined to redefine and revolutionize your current profiling activities. This self-contained instrument is available in three profiling ranges: 20m, 50m and 100m.
Special features include:
- Multiple simultaneous sampling strategies: Now, two users with vastly different interests in the same environment can share a single ADCP to accomplish the data collection goals of both, essentially doubling hardware output.
- Lose the cables with high speed wireless data download. Wireless functionality allows you to fly through your data download and instrument reconfiguration, saving you time and money. This feature also allows for wireless set up and software/firmware updates.
- There's no need to decide in advance what time scales are of interest. Sentinel V has the memory and ability to record all raw data, allowing you to investigate features of interest over time scales that you can determine at a later date.
- Five beams for data redundancy and enhanced measurements
- Real-time and bottom tracking capability now available
- Available in 3 profiling ranges; 20m, 50m, 100m
- Off-the-shelf battery operation
- Multiple bandwidths
- Captured O-rings
- Flood-resistant electronics chamber
- Increased portability
- One-touch activation
- Individual transducers
- Now available with data rates up to 16Hz
Workhorse Monitor ADCP
The Workhorse Monitor is Teledyne RD Instruments™ most popular direct-reading Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. The unit is typically bottom frame-mounted and hard-wired to shore to provide real-time monitoring of coastal currents. This Workhorse Monitor's high data accuracy and reliability make it a favorite for deployments in high-volume traffic areas such as ports and harbors, where the data is often integrated into a Vessel Traffic Monitoring System.
Key features:
- Extreme accuracy and reliability: The Monitor is ideally suited for the most demanding environments, including high traffic areas such as ports and harbors.
- Versatility: This direct reading unit can easily be upgraded to tackle a wide variety of coastal applications. Typical upgrades include pressure sensor, external battery pack, bottom tracking, and directional wave measurement.
- Precision data: Teledyne RDI's patented BroadBand signal processing delivers very low-noise data, resulting in unparalleled data resolution and minimal power consumption.
- A four-beam solution: Teledyne RDI's patented 4-beam design improves data reliability, improves data quality, and improves data accuracy.
Workhorse Sentinel ADCP
The self-contained Workhorse Sentinel ADCP is Teledyne RD Instruments' most popular and versatile acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) configuration, boasting thousands of units in operation in over 50 countries around the world.
By providing profiling ranges from 1 to 165 m, the high-frequency Workhorse Sentinel ADCP is ideally suited for a wide variety of applications. The Workhorse Sentinel also offers unbeatable precision, with unmatched low power consumption, allowing you to collect more data over an extended period.
The lightweight and adaptable Workhorse Sentinel is easily deployed on buoys, boats, or mounted on the seafloor. Real-time data can be transmitted to shore via a cable link or acoustic modem, or data can be stored internally for short or long-term deployments. The Sentinel is easily upgraded to include pressure, bottom tracking, and/or directional wave measurement - for the ultimate data collection solution.
Key features:
- Versatility: Direct reading or self contained, moored or moving, the Sentinel provides precision current profiling data when and where you need it most.
- A solid upgrade path: The Sentinel has been designed to grow with your needs. Easy upgrades include pressure, bottom tracking, and directional wave measurement.
- A four-beam solution: Teledyne RDI’s patented 4-beam design improves data reliability, improves data quality, and improves data accuracy.
- Precision data: Teledyne RDI’s patented BroadBand signal processing delivers very low-noise data, resulting in unparalleled data resolution and minimal power consumption.
Workhorse Mariner ADCP
Teledyne RD Instruments' Workhorse Mariner acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) has become the instrument of choice for researchers and commercial surveyors working in coastal waters.
The Mariner offers all of the benefits of RDI's traditional ADCP products in a compact package designed specifically for coastal hull-mount applications. The unit is easily integrated into the vessel's DGPS input to provide integrated ADCP readings with precise position information.
Key features:
- Convenience: By installing the Mariner directly in the vessel ’s hull, the ADCP is always ready to operate —no need for cumbersome mounting tools and hardware, and the unit is safely protected from external elements.
- A turn-key solution: The Mariner comes complete with all the tools you need to go straight to work to collect high resolution current profiling data.
- Precision data: Teledyne RDI ’s patented BroadBand signal processing delivers very low-noise data, resulting in unparalleled fine track resolution.
- A four-beam solution: Teledyne RDI ’s patented 4 beam design improves data reliability, improves data quality, and improves data accuracy.
Workhorse Quartermaster ADCP
Teledyne RD Instruments’ WORKHORSE QUARTERMASTER Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) has been designed to fill the gap between Teledyne RDI’s higher frequency 300 kHz Workhorse units and the 75 kHz Long Ranger. The Quartermaster is ideally suited for current profile measurements that may require up to 300m range. The unit provides an unsurpassed combination of range, resolution, and versatility, thanks to Teledyne RDI’s Broadband technology.
The highly flexible Workhorse Quartermaster is available in two product configurations: self-contained (Sentinel), and directreading (Monitor). The Quartermaster is ideally suited for:
• Ocean observatories
• Shelf-edge profiling
• Upper ocean dynamics
Key features:
- Collect data at your desk: the Quartermaster can operate in realtime or stored-data mode. Third-party products are available for delivery of data via an acoustic modem and radio data transfer direct to your desktop.
- The Workhorse Quartermaster can be configured to meet your deployment requirements. Self-contained, real-time, stationary or moving, the Quartermaster is the solution.
- Set it and forget it - the highly reliable and energy-efficient Quartermaster can be deployed for three, six, or even twelve months of worry-free operation.
- Teledyne RDI's patented BroadBand signal processing produces high-resolution,precise measurements without compromising battery life.
Workhorse Long Ranger ADCP
Long-range, long-term, and reliable, the LONG RANGER is the best choice for gathering detailed data on seasonal and annual current structure fluctuations for scientific research and offshore oil and gas applications. Hundreds of Long Ranger units are currently deployed on:
• environmental monitoring buoys
• offshore oil rigs
• polar research moorings
The highly flexible Long Ranger unit is available in three product configurations: self-contained, direct reading, or remote- head— depending on your application requirements.
Key features:
- Collect data at your desk: the Long Ranger is designed to operate in real-time data mode. Third-party products are available for acoustic and radio data transfer direct to your location.
- Provides the longest profiling range available from a self-contained ADCP.
- Patented BroadBand signal processing produces precise measurement,allowing frequent sampling with extended battery life.
- Long Ranger inherits the Workhorse family electronics that have been proven in thousands of RDI ADCP applications.
- Set it and forget it: Three, six, twelve-month-long successful deployments from polar waters to the tropics.
Workhorse Horizontal ADCP (H-ADCP)
The 300 kHz long-range Horizontal Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (H-ADCP) is a narrow beam acoustic monitoring system that "looks" out horizontally from an offshore or coastal to measure near-surface water currents and multi-directional waves.
This revolutionary tool uses patented BroadBand signal processing to obtain an optimal combination of range, resolution and data quality, which simply cannot be replicated using NarrowBand products. The H-ADCP measures currents at up to 128 individual points at up to 200 meters horizontal range, offering a clear illustration of the complete flow structure.
Key features:
- Increased Range: 300-kHz frequency and narrow <1° beam work together to ensure an extended profiling range of 200 meters or more.
- Increased Data: Acoustic Doppler technology provides users with the capability to measure from 1 to 128 points, providing exponentially more data than a single point instrument.
- Real-Time Data: Easily installed, the H-ADCP provides unobtrusive real-time data —for real-time decision-making.
- Robust Construction: Designed so that no calibration is ever required and constructed to allow installations in the most hostile environments.
- Ease of Operation: Pre-configured for simple operation, the H-ADCP ensures optimum performance with a minimal learning curve.
Ocean Observer ADCP
Teledyne RD Instruments dominates current measurement for the offshore oil and gas sector with the OO, a field-proven instrument designed to facilitate exploration drilling, field development, and production.
Teledyne RDI's acoustic Doppler systems and software have been chosen by nearly every offshore operator worldwide to support their exploration drilling programs. Current data is gathered and displayed in real time to enable crucial operational decision-making. The highly versatile Ocean Observer allows users to select between Teledyne RDI's high-resolution and long-range settings, providing optimal data for every application.
Key features:
- The deepest current profiling available to assist in production and rig safety.
- Two forms of signal processing: patented BroadBand for high precision; standard NarrowBand for extended range
- Field-proven technology that operates in the high-noise environment of oil platform production
- A track record second to none; the Ocean Observer has been adopted by all the major oil companies on every type of platform
- Patented phased-array transducer, for extended range in a powerful yet compact package.
Ocean Observer III 38kHz ADCP
Since 1997 Teledyne RD Instruments has been providing ADCPs that have proven in the field they can profile beyond 1000 m from research vessels traveling at speeds >15 knots and from offshore oil and gas platforms during exploration work.
That same technology has now allowed us to create the Ocean Observer III 38 kHz ADCP. We have combined our field-proven 38 kHz phased array ADCP transducer with our field-proven electronics into a single package that is capable of profiling >1000m.
This design makes it ideal to be mounted from an oil platform, over the side of a vessel, and in surface buoys.
Key features:
- Field-Proven Hardware Functionality: Phased-array transducer technology >18 years Electronics/firmware >5 years
- Field-Proven Profiling Range: 1000 m profiling range on more than 100 installations worldwide for >18 years
- Compact Size: Patented phased-array transducer with integrated electronics in a single package
- Dual Profiling Modes: Independent or interlaced long-range and high-resolution modes to optimize for deployment requirements
- Integrated Sensors: Heading, pitch, roll, temperature, pressure, and HEM sensors
- Versatile: Collect real-time 1000 m profiles from just about any surface platform or mooring
Ocean Surveyor
For over thirty years, Teledyne RD Instruments has been the preeminent supplier of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling (ADCP) instrumentation for open ocean applications. Teledyne RDI’s vessel-mounted OCEAN SURVEYOR family of ADCPs are the only instruments capable of collecting detailed maps of the distribution of water currents and suspended materials through the water column and along the ship’s path—at depths and resolutions previously considered unattainable. In real time, the ADCP is also used to aid in situ decision-making, to adapt field operations, and to understand current regime characteristics.
Key features:
- The deepest current profiling available to assist in production and rig safety
- Two forms of signal processing: patented BroadBand for high precision; standard NarrowBand for extended range
- Field-proven technology that operates in the high-noise environment of oil platform production
- A track record second to none; the Ocean Observer has been adopted by all the major oil companies on every type of platform
- Patented phased-array transducer, for extended range in a powerful yet compact package.
NEMO ADCP Wave Processing Module
Now there's no reason to wait for your critical Teledyne RD Instruments Waves data. Used in conjunction with an Teledyne RDI Waves Array, the new NEMO Waves Processing Module actually processes your ADCP/ Waves data at the source, removing the typical constraints for transmitting this data to the surface.
The NEMO Waves Processing Module has been designed specifically for Teledyne RDI’s Waves users. The self-contained unit is interfaced with your Workhorse ADCP Waves Array, where it quickly and efficiently processes real-time current-profiling and waves data. The result is a highly condensed data string suitable for transmission to the surface/shore via modem, radio telemetry, or direct cable—in report-ready format. This makes NEMO ideally suited for real-time applications, or periodic data QA/QC checks to confirm your long-term data quality.
Key features:
- Processed real-time ADCP/Waves data when and where you need it.
- Low power —extended deployment.
- Easy to configure —easy to operate.
- Flexible design allows for operation with Teledyne RDI ’s Waves Array products at deployment depths of up to 200m.
Doppler Velocity Sampler
Teledyne RD Instruments’ low-power DVS is ideally suited for your long-term shallow -- and deep-water -- moored current measurement applications. The DVS can provide substantially improved data quality over traditional single point solutions, allowing for up to 5 bins of high resolution velocity data over a range of up to 5M. The DVS offers you the proven precision and reliability that Teledyne RDI is known for in a package and price point that meets your needs.
The low power DVS offers an advanced alternative to single point current meters, offering up to 5 bins of high resolution data, plus the following unique technology advantages.
Key features:
- High accuracy compass and extended deployment life mode.
- Four-beam Janus configuration for a profile of the error velocity
- High precision: The DVS measures velocity profiles at up to 40 times per second, allowing mm/s precision at a 1 Hz update rate.
- Multi-tasking capability: The DVS can be programmed to run a pre-configured sampling strategy, which need not be interrupted should the operator decide to communicate with the DVS to download data or command additional samples.
- Optional next-generation internal inductive modem and high-precision (0.005 °C) thermistor, both from Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc.
- High sample-rate solid-state compass/tilt sensor: measures at up to 15 Hz, which helps identify periods of mooring line strumming in the data.
Velocity software
The Sentinel V ADCP is much more than a new product platform - it's a completely new way of interacting with your ADCP and your collected data. The Sentinel V's new ReadyV and Velocity software are sure to become the industry benchmark, with its powerful features, multiple views, touch-screen capabilitym and highly intuitive interface. If you can navigate a smart phone - you're ready for Velocity.
- ReadyV: Pre-Deployment Software
- Velocity: Post-Processing Software
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