SAS Above Water Optical System
Our Surface Acquisition Systems (SAS) are designed for above-water measurements of ocean colour using Satlantic's De or hyperspectral digital optical sensors. The system consists of two radiance sensors and one irradiance sensor. The main advantage of the MicroSAS system is it's small size and extremely fast sampling rate. Special adapters can also be mounted to the MicroSAS radiometer to narrow the field of view to a half angle of 1.5º to 0.75º. The HyperOCR SAS radiance sensors are designed with a narrow field of view compared to the in-water version and provide 136 channels of Li and Lt data.
The SAS can be mounted on a variety of vessels to provide continuous monitoring of ocean colour along the ship's track, on towers or other platforms to provide time series observations, or the system can be used for airborne remote sensing of ocean colour.
Applications:
- Estimate concentrations of dissolved organic matter, suspended sediments, and chlorophyll
- Bio-optical algorithm development and modelling
- Satellite calibration and validation
- Environmental monitoring
- Data products include water leaving irradiance, remote sensing reflectance, and energy fluxes
Features:
- Precision measurements of Li, Lt & Es
- Adjustable viewing angles from Nadir to Zenith
- Multiple radiometer options - multi, hyperspectral or combinations
- Full ancillary suite - tilts, sea-surface temperature, GPS
- Data logging and processing software included
| Irradiance in-air | Radiance in-air | |
| Field of View | Cosine ±3% 0-60º 10% 60º- 85º (350-800 nm)
| 3º (FOV extension aperture) |
| Typical Saturation | 9 µW cm-2 nm-1 | 0.5 µW cm-2 nm-1 |
| SNR | 1.6 x 104 | 1.6 x 104 |
| Size | 39.9 (cm) Height 6.0 (cm) Diameter 1.0 (kg) Weight | 36.2 (cm) Height 6.0 (cm) Diameter 1.0 (kg) Weight |
| Operating Temperature | -10 to +50º | -10 to +50º |
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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 1.5.3
SatCon-1.5.3-b1-x86.exe for Windows XP/Vista/7 ProSoft is an interactive graphical data processing and extraction application for Satlantic sensors. It is highly configurable with optional batch mode operation and a rich user interface. Supported data products include:
- Diffuse attenuation coefficient
- Solar utilities
- Photosynthetically available radiation
- Pigment modeling
- Energy fluxes
- Water leaving
- radiance
- Reflectance data products
- Normalized water leaving radiance
- Water properties
For minimum system requirements, installation instructions, and new features, please refer to the release notes and manual.
Download ProSoft 7.7.16
Prosoft 7.7.16 provides a number of key improvements including Windows 7 compatibility, corrected backscattering coefficient units, robust handling of corrupt timer data, HyperSAS IR camera integration, interruptable processing, and more. For a detailed list of recent fixes and features, please refer to the release notes.
ProSoft7.7.16_Setup.exe for Windows XP/Vista/7 
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.
What are the main differences between Satlantic multispectral and hyperspectral radiometers?
What are SIP files?
Files that are delivered with Satlantic and third party equipment to describe the sensors data output and calibration coefficients come in two types. Calibration files or *.cal files and telemetry definition format files or *.tdf files. In some cases, systems are created that network many sensors together and their combined data is provided in one serial output.
The simplest example is a HOCR sensor that generates both light and dark frames. A more complex example is a HPROII profiling system that may contain as many as 5 sensors and 7 individual calibration and tdf files. These files must be used to both collect and process the data.
This can become quite confusing to keep track of all these files so Satlantic developed SIP files. All CAL and TDF files required for a system are zipped using winzip and the extension changed from *.ZIP to *.SIP. The file name includes the system description (usually the network master serial number) and the creation date. This SIP file can then be used in place of individual files to collect and process data.
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