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Electronic Sensors and Instruments for Coastal Ocean Observing

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Electromechanical, electro-optical, opto-chemical, and electrochemical sensors are now available that allow continuous real-time monitoring of a wide range of environmental parameters and process rates. These sensors are integrated into electronic instruments capable of directly or remotely capturing these properties or rate processes in quantitative terms as analog or digital data. This chapter describes in detail the wide range of commercially available sensors and instruments with examples for the most commonly measured physical, chemical, and biological variables in the marine environmental field. Principles of operation and limitations of available sensors are also described.

The original version of this chapter was revised. A correction to this chapter can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78352-9_9

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Corredor, J.E. (2018). Electronic Sensors and Instruments for Coastal Ocean Observing. In: Coastal Ocean Observing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78352-9_2

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