Moored Oceanographic Spectroradiometer

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Moored Oceanographic Spectroradiometer
Small Business Innovation Research
Biospherical Instruments, Inc.
San Diego, CA

• INNOVATION
• Newly designed upwelling and down welling
  radiance detectors for measuring chlorophyll
  concentrations
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Extensive body of field test data generated has
  been used to develop a family of instruments
• Provides unattended monitoring of biological and
  optical variability over periods of several
  months
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• More than 50 units of original design sold
  commercially with approximately 50 for export
• Company continues to manufacture and sell
  technologically advanced version of instrument
  around the world with revenues in excess of
  300,000 per year

Instrument at Underwater Mooring

• GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
• Instrument installed at several long-term
  moorings, providing data under study at Scripps,
  University of California at Santa Barbara, Jet
  Propulsion Laboratory, as well as in Japan and
  Germany
• Instrument observations provide data for the
  validation of satellite observations of ocean
  surface conditions

1983 Phase II NAS7-934 NASA/JPL Contact - David
Collins Company Contact - Charles Booth
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