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OAS insttype Detail for acoustic sensor
| insttypes_id: | 42 |
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| Term: | acoustic sensor |
| Description: | generic instrument type for sensing sound in the water column |
| Definition: | Use acoustic sensor for a variety of types of observations, including acoustic tomography, whale and other marine mammal sound detection, etc.
Do not use acoustic sensor for instrument type when the thing being measured is distance to seafloor: use echo sounder or sidescan sonar as appropriate. |
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| Deprecated: | false |
| Metadata version: | 0 |
| Keydate: | 2000-10-18 04:00:00+00 |
| Editdate: | 2003-03-26 22:01:08+00 |