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OAS platform Detail for SG103
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platforms_id: 12120
Title:
Name: SG103
ICES Code: 33XL
Callsign:
Countries: UNITED STATES
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel SG103 from UNITED STATES.

Name : SG103
Flag : UNITED STATES - US (ISO Country Code)
Platform Class : 27 sub-surface gliders (buoyancy-based propulsion capable at variable depths not constrained to be near sea surface)
Notes : Underwater Seaglider glider (number 103) owned by the Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington

Additional Information Sources:
- http://www.apl.washington.edu/projects/seaglider/specifications.html

General Comments:
Size: Body 1.8 m, 30 cm diameter
Wing span 1m
Antenna mast length 1 m
Weight: 52 kg (dry)
Maximum Depth: 1000 m
Maximum Range/Duration: 4600 km (650 dives to 1km depth)
Batteries: Lithium primaries, 24V and 10 V packs, 10 MJ
Typical Speed: 25 cm/s
Glide Angle: 16-45 degrees
Mechanical Features: Isopyonal hull
No external moving parts
Low drag, flooded fiberglass fairing
RF Data Telemetry: Iridium satellite data telemetry
Guidance and Control: Control and system commands transmitted on
any dive. Dead reckoning between GPS fixes
using pitch, roll, heading. Kalaman filter
prediction for mean and oscillatory currents.
Bathymetry map for surface to near-bottom
dives.

Owned and operated:
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
1013 NE 40th Street
Box 355640
Seattle, WA 98105-6698

http://www.apl.washington.edu/projects/seaglider/specifications.html

Request submitted to ICES on 2014-04-22.
Confirmed by NOAA on 2014-06-02.
Deprecated: false
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2014-03-13 10:13:00+00
Editdate: 2022-07-02 16:25:24+00