A Fiber Optic Camera Undersea System

这个海洋科学仪器开发项目将 设计和建造一个重量轻、具有成本效益且 可拆卸深海电视系统。 它将提供海洋 科学家们用实时的数字彩色视频， 分辨率可达6,000米 它的大小，重量， 它的可靠性将使它可以从机遇号飞船上使用 没有复杂的支持系统。 关键的进展是 系统的相对较小的尺寸是一个新的电光电缆。 现有的深海摄像系统需要一根粗电缆， 提供机械强度并提供所需的电气 向深海输送能量 新设计的电缆将仅 9.5直径为1.5毫米，从而减轻了大部分重量， 大系统的复杂性。 电缆也将有很多 比标准海洋电缆更大的带宽， 传输高分辨率彩色视频。 新相机 该系统将为一些 海底研究和勘探项目，其中一些项目 与夏威夷专属经济区的研究有关。

This ocean sciences instrumentation development project will design and construct a light weight, cost-effective, and maneuverable deep sea television system. It will provide ocean scientists with real-time, digital color video with very high resolution in depths to 6,000 meters. Its size, weight, and reliability will make it usable from ships of opportunity without a complex support system. The key development to this system's relatively small size is a new electro-optic cable. Existing deep-sea camera systems require a thick cable to provide mechanical strength and to deliver required electrical power to the deep ocean. The newly designed cable will be only 9.5 mm in diameter, thereby reducing much of the weight and complexity of larger systems. The cable will also have much greater bandwidth than standard oceanographic cables to allow transmission of high resolution color video. The new camera system will provide enhanced capabilities for a number of seafloor research and exploration projects, several of which relate to studies of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Hawaii.