One of the most frequently occurring problems among our user group is moisture damage to the probes, SMC cables, and nose cone. There are several reasons moisture damage may occur. Poor installation of sensors: over-tightening or under-tightening the probe holder cap, or an ill-seated probe will compromise the integrity of the sealing surface. Installing sensors in the rain: […]
We will be at Oceanology International in London, UK, from March 15 – 17, 2016. We will be exhibiting at the Canadian Pavilion.
We will be at the International Conference on Ocean Energy in Edinburgh, UK from February 23 – 25, 2016. We will be at the Canadian Pavilion.
Rockland Scientific will be at the AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, NO, from 21-26 February, 2016. We will be in booth #212.
The need for improved knowledge of turbulence statistics in tidal energy generation has led to a trans-Canadian collaboration between British Columbia-based Rockland Scientific International and the Ocean Acoustics Laboratory (OAL) at Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University to develop advanced techniques for turbulence measurements at turbine ‘hub height’.These new techniques will be traceable to a laboratory standard […]
Spikes in data can be caused by environmental debris in the water column (phytoplankton, jelly fish, etc.). Regions of high biological productivity are more likely to result in lots of spikes in your data set. Such spikes can change the spectra and skew estimates of dissipation. Despiking detects anomalous, stand alone spikes in data and […]
A second cornerstone of our ODAS Matlab Library 4.0 is the new function odas_p2mat. odas_p2mat uses the configuration information embedded in the Rockland data file to convert the binary data into data vectors in physical units for both raw signals and derived signals. The data vectors created by odas_p2mat are saved in a mat-file with the same name as the p-file. […]
A cornerstone of our ODAS Matlab Library 4.0 is the new and improved quick_look.m. quick_look.m visualizes the content of an RSI data file, the p-file, computes spectra for a selected range, and returns a profile of the rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy. First, data is converted into physical units by calling the new function odas_p2mat.m. After data […]
Welcome! We are very excited to unveil our new website. Please take the time to click around to see what information is new and updated. This first blog post is an opportunity to introduce you to our exciting new product available on our website: ODAS Matlab Library 4.0. The new ODAS Matlab Library adds a […]
Rockland is hosting a hands-on demonstration of the VMP-250 microstructure turbulence profiler as part of Ocean Business 2015, NOC Southampton. This course is free to attend, but registration is required on the Ocean Business 2015 website. The demonstration will be in two parts: a 1-hour field demonstration and a 1-hour classroom session. Wednesday, April 15, 1:30 – […]