Design of a Flooded Housing for a Towed Autonomous Hydrophone Recording System

Barlow, Jay

doi:10.25923/rmzp-fh90

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Design of a Flooded Housing for a Towed Autonomous Hydrophone Recording System

2021
By Barlow, Jay
Series: NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC 647

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Personal Author:

Barlow, Jay
Corporate Authors:

Southwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SWFSC (Southwest Fisheries Science Center)
Description:

The recent miniaturization of hydrophone recorders now allows towed hydrophone systems to be autonomous. The elimination of a long conducting cable and computer-based, shipboard recorders has resulted in a user friendly system which can record better sound quality at a lower cost than traditional ship based towed array surveys. Here I present the design of a flooded housing for a self-contained hydrophone recording system. With slight modifications, this housing can be used with either an integrated single hydrophone recorder (e.g. the SoundTrap® ST300) or with a short array of two hydrophones and a multi-channel recorder (e.g. the SoundTrap® ST4300).
Keywords:

Passive acoustics, Towed array, Flooded housing, SoundTrap
Series:

NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC 647
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/rmzp-fh90
Document Type:

Technical Memorandum
Rights Information:

Public Domain
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Submitted
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urn:sha256:9344782bba97261aaa0f427db0595a4ecdf7647a67f93d42c1a3c72b8a5d0250
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/31532/noaa_31532_DS1.pdf
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