An Oceanographic Data Acquisition System (ODAS) for Ethernet LANs for Spanish research vessels

This paper presents an Oceanographic Data Acquisition System implemented using Local Area Network (LAN) capabilities for large and middle oceanographic vessels, discussing the technical solutions that have been taken about several topics such as hardware and network topology, data transmission protocols, data formats, real-time data integration, data visualisation, data storage, time synchronisation, process monitoring, etc.

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