Category: Process

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Check with us to make sure your drifter will be launched in a place that is optimum for long voyages. We will also make sure your GPS is set up before deployment. ID Convention There are two numbers associated with a deployment. The first is the “electronic serial number” of …

We have been developing a variety of low-cost modifications to the original “CODE surface drifter” designed by Russ Davis in 1982 for the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE, see reference below). We keep the basic configuration/size the same in order to maintain the oceanographic-standard drag but try to use materials available …