Principles of Oceanographic Instrument Systems: Sensors and Measurements
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this graduate-level course on designing and using oceanographic sensor systems. Lectures cover transducer characteristics for acoustic, current, temperature, pressure, electric, magnetic, gravity, salinity, velocity, heat flow, and optical devices, along with the limitations ocean environments impose on them, signal conditioning, noise, sensitivity, and sampling constraints, and relevant standards. Guest experts describe state-of-the-art systems used in physical oceanography, geophysics, submersibles, and acoustics. Lab work takes students on day cruises in local waters to prepare, deploy, and analyze data from standard oceanographic instruments, giving hands-on experience alongside the theory. Materials include lecture notes and course readings as published on MIT OpenCourseWare, free to access with no certificate offered.