MULTIPURPOSE AUTONOMOUS MODULE FOR NETWORK UNDERWATER MEASUREMENTS OF BIOPOPTICAL PARAMETERS
To solve many fundamental and applied problems, there are not enough regular measurements made in the water column or under the ice. The organization of marine expeditions is expensive, satellite optical sounding provides measurement only in the surface layer of the sea with significant errors in the waters of the second optical type and does not work in the presence of clouds or ice cover, a network of autonomous buoys with optical sensors are extremely small. This article describes the results of the development of a low cost multipurpose stand-alone optical module for network and / or complex sub-satellite measurements of seawater fluorescence. The relevance of the study is determined by the need in autonomous networks of global underwater observation of the sea water bio-optical parameters. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the development of universal optical modules that can be combined, both in a complex and unified complex for hydro-optical studies, and separately organized into a distributed network of hydro-optical measurements. This solution will allow to create a universal system of underwater hydro-optical measurements, as well as to modernize existing underwater vehicles and instruments that do not have optical sensors.