Moored Oceanographic Spectroradiometer

Biospherical Instruments, Inc.

San Diego, CA

Newly designed upwelling and downwelling radiance detectors for measuring chlorophyll concen- trations

• Extensive body of field test data generated has been used to develop a family of instruments
• Provides unattended monitoring of biological and optical variability over periods of several months

• More than 50 units of original design sold commercially with approximately 50% for export
• Company continues to manufacture and sell technologically advanced version of instrument around the world with revenues in excess of $300,000 per year

• Instrument installed at several long-term moorings, providing data under study at Scripps, University of California at Santa Barbara, JPL, as well as in Japan and Germany
• Instrument observations provide data for the validation of satellite observations of ocean surface conditions

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