Working with Canadian industry, Ocean Networks Canada Innovation Centre helps new technologies adapt for use on observatory platforms, by providing expertise to demonstrate and highlight new instruments for the global market. As a vital component of a world-class ONC ocean observing system, DIGITAL HYDROPHONES were identified as a high priority technology by the ONC science and engineering teams, and represent a significant global growth market.
Instrument Concepts based near Truro, Nova Scotia, has developed new state-of-the-art, fully integrated digital “smart” hydrophones with GeoSpectrum Technologies' transducers—making them ideal candidates for Innovation Centre technology demonstrations. A smart hydrophone is a highly sophisticated underwater microphone capable of...
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