Development of Lagrangian drifter for ocean monitoring and marine applications

2014-04-22This thesis describes the design and development of a Lagrangian Drifter for ocean monitoring applications. The system is developed to move with the currents at a particular depth, transmitting its location to the user. Through this design, the user can track ocean currents and object or entities carried by them. This thesis introduces the system by giving the motivation for the work and a survey of related work and present day technologies available to design the system. The design considerations are laid out based upon the application of the device. A description of the electrical, software and mechanical design of the system is presented here. The system was characterized for its defined design considerations. Finally, experiments and results are presented and concluded with a discussion on future enhancements for the system