Canon Meeting Notes 10AM Pacific Forum 16 Aug 2012

Platforms timeline: Spreadsheet link available at ODSS.MBARI.ORG
   (docs.google.com)

Flyer and Zephyr now scheduled to get underway at same time: 10 Sept

If the Flyer is late out of the shipyard, plans need to be re-thought

Platforms:

-Flyer doing lots of CTD casts

-Zephyr/Dorado

-ESP Drifter

-Wave Glider

-LRAUVs

   Tethys
   
   Daphne
   
-Stella

-Gliders

-Satellite

Zephyr to launch Daphne LRAUV, which will do donuts around the ESP drifter, then after Stella is deployed,
   Daphne to run transect from ESP to Stell
   
Dorado to run without Gulpers, 18 hour mission durations contemplated ( 24 hour cycle ); 
   goes into the water at the same time each day
   
   Possible times: Chavez suggested recovery at midnight, deploy at 6 AM
                   Haddock favors recovery at 3 AM, deployment at 9 AM
                   
   John Ryan to facilitate scheduling

   Dorado missions likely to be a straight line along transect which intersects successive Stella deployments
   
Data issues

   Most platforms report to shore, except the ESP which reports to the Flyer
   
      Flyer uploads data to shore at 2 Mbits / sec
   
   Plan is to download Dorado data and dump back to shore over 128k / sec VSAT uplink
   
      or maybe WiFi to Flyer if it's in range
      
      or maybe throw footballs with Thumb Drives inside
      
      ( Bellingham wants LISST 100 data )
      
   Getting the data to the Flyer is top priority, using Zephyr onboard Matlab processing to .png files
      being uplinked. Sending data files over VSAT is the backup plan.  ( Chavez )