Sensor frame (IMAGE)

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Sensor frame

Caption

Sensor frame deployed among the polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the NE equatorial Pacific Ocean. The top sensor is a turbidity sensor recording suspended particulate matter loads and the bottom vertically mounted sensor is an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) used for recording current speed and direction, as well as vertical profiles of turbidity.

Credit

Photo taken by ROV KIEL 6000 (GEOMAR, Kiel).

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