SBIR Phase I: A Fiber-Optics Linked Marine Coast Observer and Monitor

* 96-60079欧文 这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目是对拟议的沿海海洋过程传感器（COPS）光纤连接传感器阵列的可行性研究。 COPS使用视频全息和小波变换光学相关来记录和分析海洋微粒。 COPS集成了许多小型坚固的传感器，一旦部署，传感器可以添加。 每个传感器都可以在其光纤链路范围内重新定位。 颗粒物的详细表征对于了解海底环境至关重要。 COPS测量颗粒在各种分散的网站与全息传感器的集合连接到一个中央数据处理单元在海岸。 研究的目的是建立和测试一个实验板COPS传感器和光纤链路。 每个COPS传感器记录一个3-D领域的微粒小波分析和分类。 到第一阶段结束时，将有一个详细的COPS设计。工作人员将通过纤维记录颗粒的视频全息图，以显示硬件的可行性。 他们将使用小波处理来分析质量和流体传输，并展示软件的可行性。 下一阶段的研究将包括海上试验。 这一沿海海洋过程传感器的商业应用包括研究海洋聚集粒子动力学;这些动力学涉及生物过程和机制，以及影响聚集的化学/物理过程。 其他应用包括环境测量、水产养殖、海洋废物处理监测、工程浊度、尾矿监测和水下激光雷达。 政府应用包括各种海军海岸传感器。 ***

*** 96-60079 Owen This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is feasibility study of a proposed Coastal Ocean Processes Sensor (COPS) array of fiber-optics linked sensors. COPS uses video holography and wavelet-transform optical correlation to record and analyze ocean particulates. COPS integrates a number of small, rugged sensors and, once deployed, sensors can be added. Each sensor can be relocated within the reach of its fiber link. Detailed characterization of particulates is central to understanding the subsea environment. COPS measures particulates at a variety of scattered sites with a collection of holographic sensors linked to a central data processing unit on shore. The objective of the research is to build and test a breadboard COPS sensor and fiber links. Each COPS sensor records a 3-D field of particulates for wavelet analysis and classification. By the end of Phase I, there will be a detailed COPS design. Workers will record video holograms of particulates through fibers to show hardware feasibility. They will use wavelet processing to analyze mass and fluid transport and show software feasibility. The next phase of the research will include sea trials. The commercial applications of this Coastal Ocean Processes Sensor, include studies of marine aggregate particle dynamics; these dynamics involve biological processes and mechanisms, as well as the chemical/physical processes that affect aggregation. Other applications include environmental surveying, aquaculture, ocean waste disposal monitoring, engineering turbidity, mine tailing monitoring, and underwater lidar. Government applications include a variety of naval coastal sensors. ***