U-Tow - Rugged, Versatile Undulating Towed Vehicle
U-Tow is an undulating, or fixed-depth, towed vehicle with a large adaptable payload for oceanographic sensors, analyzers and samplers. The system can be supplied as a basic vehicle for equipping with user supplied instrumentation or as a complete integrated system, tailored to suit a particular application.
U-Tow has been carefully designed as a rugged and reliable high capability vehicle, offering predictable flight characteristics and an extremely user friendly, easy to operate Windows front-end.
The U-Tow design was originally commissioned by the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences (SAHFOS) in the mid 1990's as an enhancement of the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR), a device that has been extensively used for over 50 years, but has only a limited plankton sampling capability and can only operate near surface at a fixed depth.
U-Tow by comparison can be fitted with the advanced PSM (Plankton Sampling Mechanism) and a suite of sophisticated multi-parameter sensors. It also has the significant advantage of being able to undulate.
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| Summary | U-Tow is a rugged high capability undulating or fixed depth towed-vehicle providing the capacity to accommodate a large payload of oceanographic sensors, analyzers and samplers. |
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