SonTek CastAway®-CTD
Quick and Accurate Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth Profiles
SonTek Castaway®-CTD the first handheld castable instrument that provides instantaneous profiles of temperature, salinity, and sound speed
- Salinity Accuracy: 0.1 PSU
- Temperature Accuracy: 0.05°C
- Integrated GPS position
- Real-time display screen
- Wireless data transfer
- 5 Hz sampling rate
Designed for coastal profiling, the SonTek CastAway®-CTD incorporates a 6-electrode conductivity cell, coupled with a fast response thermistor to provide highly accurate, high resolution CTD measurements to depths of 100m.
Field ready and rugged!
The SonTek CastAway-CTD is a small, rugged and technically advanced CTD designed for profiling to depths of up to 100m. The system incorporates modern technical features which allow it to achieve a 5 Hz response time, fine spatial resolution and high accuracy. It uses a six electrode flow-through conductivity cell with zero external field coupled with a rapid response thermistor to attain high measurement accuracies. The instrument is simple to deploy, does not require a pump and is hydrodynamically designed to free fall rate of 1 m/s.
The integrated real-time data display screen, internal GPS sensor and automated wireless data transfer are unique features that simplify data collection.
Each SonTek CastAway-CTD cast is referenced with both time and location using its built-in GPS receiver. Latitude and longitude are acquired both before and after each profile. Plots of conductivity, temperature, salinity and sound speed versus depth can be viewed immediately on the SonTek CastAway's integrated color LCD screen in the field. Raw data can be easily downloaded via Bluetooth to a Windows computer for detailed analysis and /or export at any time.
*US Patent #8272262
Specifications
*Based on temperature resolution and accuracy.
**International Equation of State for sea water (EOS-80).
†1978 Practical Salinity Scale
‡ Chen-Millero, 1977. Speed-of-sound in sea water at high pressures.
§ Based on 100,000 µS/cm at -5°C.
Software & Firmware
CASTAWAY-CTD SOFTWARE — V 1.5 — 30JAN2012
The CastAway-CTD basic software was designed specifically for the CastAway-CTD system and is used to communicate with the instrument, download data, configure the instrument, upgrade the CastAway-CTD's firmware, in addition to offering a suite of data visualization, management and exporting capabilities.
CASTAWAY-CTD FIRMWARE — V 1.63 — 07JAN2022
The CastAway-CTD is a profiling instrument that measures conductivity, temperature, and pressure. Its embedded firmware controls all of the instrument's functions and assures the data is of the utmost quality. This firmware is free to any CastAway-CTD owners/users and does not require any activation code. Please follow the instructions in the CastAway-CTD manual for details on how to check the version of your instrument's current firmware version and how to upgrade it if necessary.
Solutions
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