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BOSS Bio-Optical Sensor System

A flexible platform that expands sensor capabilities of profiling floats by providing multispectral radiometry, scattering, beam attenuation, chlorophyll, and CDOM measurements to complement the temperature, salinity and oxygen measurements of the profiling float.
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The Bio-Optical Sensor System (BOSS) is an integrated suite of instruments developed for deployment on profiling float arrays to observe biogeochemical parameters at global scales. The BOSS is a flexible package that expands the sensor capability of profiling floats by providing multispectral radiometry, scattering, beam attenuation, chlorophyll, and CDOM measurements to complement the standard suite of parameters that includes temperature, salinity and oxygen.

The BOSS system manages data collection to minimize energy consumption. The instrument synchronizes multi-parameter sampling and logs the data including the pressure, temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen data from the host profiling float with a common time reference to facilitate post processing.
 
Jointly developed by Satlantic and WET Labs, the BOSS system is currently in production in three sensor suite variants.

BOSS Sensor Options

Bio-Optical Sensor System Variant
SensorsParametersStandardLiteMini
 Timexxx
Heading, Pitch, Rollxxx
RadiometryPAR xx
Ed(412 nm)xxx
Ed(443 nm)xxx
Ed(490 nm)xxx
Ed(555 nm)x  
Lu(412 nm)x  
Lu(443 nm)x  
Lu(490 nm)x  
Lu(555 nm)x  
FluorometryChlorophyllxxx
CDOMxxx
Scatteringbb(412 nm)xxx
bb(440 nm)x  
bb(700 nm)xxx
Beam Attenuationc(650 nm)xx 

 

Testing the BGC profiler in Bedford Basin the BOSS system featuring WETLabs ECO FLBB and ECO BB2FL
BOSS end view Bio-Optical Sensor System mounted on APEX float BOSS bio-optical sensor system testing on APEX profiling float BOSS biogeochemical sensor system for APEX profiling floats

SatCon

SatCon is a software utility for converting raw binary data, as logged by SatView, into readable ASCII text suitable for import by third party applications such as spreadsheets or databases. Data can be extracted in calibrated physical units or raw binary counts. SatCon can be operated interactively through a user friendly graphical interface, or in batch mode as a background process.

For minimum system requirements, installation instructions, and new features, please refer to the release notes in the SatCon User Manual.

Download SatCon 1.5.5

Released April 28, 2011
SatCon-1.5.5-b2-x86.exe for Windows XP/Vista/7
Product Manual

SatCon 1.5 Manual

Satlantic SatCon 1.5 Manual.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
SatCon-1.5-Manual.pdf
Product Manual

SatView 2.9 Manual

Satlantic SatView 2.9 Manual.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
SatView-2.9-Manual.pdf
Scientific Poster

Biogeochemical Sensing Systems for Autonomous Profiling Floats

Monday, March 12, 2012
satlantic-wetlabs-BOSS.pdf

How do I return my Satlantic instrument for service?

Before returning your Satlantic product to us for service please contact our support team either by calling us or by filling out the Support Contact Form on the left menu of this page.  Many times, we can troubleshoot problems remotely and pre-empt the need to send your equipment back to us.

If we determine that you do, indeed, need to return your equipment we will assign you an RMA (Return Materials Authorization) number and provide you with shipping instructions.

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