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FIDO-Φ-Π: A free-falling three-dimensional Particle Imaging Velocimeter



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Specifications Functional Description People
Development Pictures/Movies/Data Cruises Publications
Links

Specifications

 
People
Principal Investigators Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks
Chief Engineer F. Simonet
Mechanical Engineer Fred Ulhman - Hydrodynamic aspects, mechanical design/fabrication.
Software Development
David Martin - Data acquisition control, GUI
Paul Roberts - Calibration, data analysis/algorithms.
Optical Consultant Karl Moore
Lab Assistants Jeremy Seymour, Casey Ta
Graduate Students Paul Roberts, Erdem Karakoylu, Jennie Cochran

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Pictures

Movies
Fido-Phi demo (17 MB)

Presentations

Data

Phytoplankton Planar Lasar-Induced Fluorescence

Velocity Particle Image Velocimetry

3D calibration grid with known positions of laser etched marks.

Sample PIV images from cruise at Channel Islands.

High resolution 3 component turbulent velocity field on a 2D plane from tank test at Scripps.

Sample of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy vs depth from a tank test at Scripps.

Cruises
11/11/03 to 11/12/03 - Cruise #1, off the coast of San Diego, CA.
8/6/04 to 8/9/04 - Cruise #2, off the coast of San Diego, CA.
9/16/04 to 9/25/04 - Cruise #3, the Channel Islands, CA.

Publications
Jaffe, J.S. Computer modeling and the design of optimal underwater Imaging Systems. IEEE J. Oceanic Eng. 15(2):101-111. (1990).
Palowitch, A. and Jaffe, J.S.. "Three-dimensional ocean chlorophyll distributions from underwater serial sectioned fluorescence images". [Article] Applied Optics. 33(14):3023-3033, 1994 May.
Palowitch, A. and Jaffe, J.S.. "Optical serial sectioned chlorophyll-a microstructure". [Article] Journal of Geophysical Research. 100(C7):13,267-13,278, 1995.
Jaffe, J.S., P.J.S. Franks and A.W. Leising. Simultaneous imaging of phytoplankton and zooplankton distributions. Oceanography 11(1): 20 pgs. (1998)
Franks, P.J.S. and Jaffe, J.S.. Microscale distributions of phytoplankton: initial results from a two-dimensional imaging fluorometer, OSST. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 220: 59-72, (2001).

Sponsors
National Science Foundation

Links
Peter Franks Web Site
Jonah Steinbuck's Web Site