Design and use of advanced technology devices for sea water monitoring

Abstract The paper describes the design and use of advanced technology equipment custom designed and built for automatic and real time monitoring of the state of marine waters, in the framework of the CNR Strategical Project for Automatic Monitoring of Marine Pollution in Southern Italy Seas and of the PRISMA 2 — SubProject 5 “Remote Sensing and Monitoring” research of the Italian Ministry for University and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST), aimed at the study and safeguarding of the Adriatic Sea.