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Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)

The SFML Hyball ROV is used to acquire underwater video imagery for use in habitat identification, groundtruthing, and quantitative biological data collection. The Hyball has a 300 m depth capability and is fitted with four thrusters. Two main thrusters provide forward, reverse and rotational movement and two vertran thrusters provide vertical and lateral movement. The internally mounted video camera (JVC 470 line resolution, 0.95 lux color CCD with an F 0.8 Pentax lens) on the Hyball can tilt and view through 360 degrees.
Manufacturer: SMD Hydrovision
Model: Hyball
www.smdhydrovision.com
   
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Multibeam Sonar

Sidescan Sonar

Remotely Operated Vehicle

On-Line CICORE Data

The Seafloor Mapping Lab (SFML) Data Library includes remotely sensed images (high-resolution multibeam bathymetry and side scan sonar geotifs), derived data (bathymetric contours, grid analyses), habitat classification data, associated data sets (survey footprints, coastline, NOAA charts), and FGDC metadata for 30+ locations along the California coast. Data archived since 2000.
 
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