A New Generation of Turnkey Broadband Solutions to Support Ocean Bottom Research

The densification of offshore observatories is the next important challenge for scientists as described in the New Advances of Geophysics’ (NAG) meeting in November 2018 in Edinburgh. 

Nanometrics is combining our latest land based technology with our proven OBS technologies to enable the next steps in offshore observation.  Specifically, we are building both 360 second and 120 second corner observatory class seismometers with the same performance specifications as land based instruments, but in a form factor allowing deployments to 6000m.   

 

These seismometers come in a form factor unique to the OBS community allowing exceptional advances in SWaP (size, weight and power), critical to reducing the expensive logistics of OBS work, and are suitable for autonomous stations and cabled stations.  Power usage and volume are reduced 60-70% versus previous generation options.

These new instruments expand Nanometrics' range of products enabling new ocean bottom science, reducing integration risk and time to deploy, while improving outcome certainty.  

Authors: Michael Perlin, Geoffrey Bainbridge, Bruce Townsend, Valarie Hamilton, Tim Parker