A robust and compact recorder system for Ocean Bottom Seismometers

Abstract

We are involved in a new and small development of an ocean bottom seismometer OBS. The equipment represents the achievement of a joint work from different scientific and technological disciplines as electronics, mechanics, acoustics, communications, information technology, marine geophysics, etc. This easy to handle and sophisticated equipment allows to record useful active and passive seismicity information, as well as other wave front, with multiple applications to the marine environment research. We are in the second series prototype hopping to improve many of the aspects that keep the equipment easy to handle and useful to work at deep-water areas.