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Dec 12, 2011

Autonomous vs. Cabled: See the Difference?

An upward-looking echosounder was deployed in Saanich Inlet on 3 July 2011. The instrument was part of an “autonomous” (i.e., battery-powered, internally-recording) package of instruments that filled in for the usual cabled instruments while the Saanich communications node was out of the water for three months for a scheduled upgrade.

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