Ocean Sonics - The Smart Hydrophone Company
Ocean Sonics designs and manufactures the icListen Smart Hydrophone and other related accessories for precise measurement of underwater sounds.
Applications include:
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Ocean Observatories
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ROV’s & AUV’s
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Pile Driving
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Fisheries Research
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Marine Mammal Monitoring
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Ocean Renewable Energy
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Harbor Security
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Offshore Wind Farms
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Seismic, Tsunami Monitoring
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Subsea Volcano Detection
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Pipeline Leak Detection
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Arctic Ice Monitoring
Ocean Sonics icListen Smart Digital Hydrophones offer superior results and performance when compared with traditional analog devices.
Here's why:
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Recording typical low-level ocean sounds with analog hydrophones requires ancillary amplifiers, filters, and digitizers.
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Analog recorders suffer from a limited dynamic range, which in turn limits their usability.
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Therefore, analog -> digital recorded data files are limited in their capability to capture the full and true sound characteristics (energy levels and frequency band).
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Digital Hydrophones eliminate ancillary preamplifiers, filters and digitizers, replacing the output voltage with a binary stream. The result: cleaner, richer data more representative of the actual “sound”.
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Smart Hydrophones add automated, real-time processing & logging to the digital hydrophone to create usable, real-time information. automated alert/alarm functions to report or log whenever a pre-set of conditions occurs.