Pacific Gyre designs and manufactures drifting buoys and marker buoys in order to track currents
and collect remote, environmental data. These calibrated drifters include GPS receivers and satellite telemetry
systems allowing users to track and monitor the drifters remotely in near real-time.
Available sensors include:
- Sea surface temperature
- Air pressure
- Wind velocity
- Water temperature profiles
- Sea surface salinity
Customers include research institutions, governmental agencies and municipalities wishing
to collect physical data about the open-ocean, coastal waters, lakes, rivers, and estuaries. Pacific Gyre
manufactures a suite of standard products, and also works with customers to innovate new designs.
Capabilities include:
- Design, engineering and manufacture of drifting buoy platforms
- Design and manufacture of embedded controllers for data acquisition
- Integration of satellite and wireless messaging technology
- Integration of environmental sensors
- Web access to collected data, including custom reporting, mapping and archival
