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Fran RoweFran Rowe

Rowe Technologies Inc. (RTI), a customer-centric • Underwater Acoustics oceanographic company designs and manufactures in- • Acoustic Imaging novative and robust Acoustic Doppler Current Pro? lers • Embedded Signal Processing [ADCPs] and Doppler Velocity Logs [DVLs]. These • Advanced Electronic Design are used for measuring currents, directional waves, and • Complex FPGA Design underwater navigation from shallow coastal environ- • Transducer Development and Manufacturing ments to full ocean depths. RTI provides the only dual • Deep Ocean Design frequency ADCP/DVL, the highest resolution velocity RTI’s electronics platform for ADCPs and DVLs is measurements (0.01 cm/s), and 12 independent pro? le unique in the industry. The products have processing con? gurations for these markets: the oceanographic, channel ? exibility of up to 8 signal processing chan-

Rowe TechnologiesRowe Technologies intercoastal waters, river waterways, renewable energy, nels and high resolution velocity measurements. RTI’s

Remote Operated Vehicles [ROVs] and Autonomous dual frequency instruments (offered in Piston and

Underwater Vehicles [AUVs]. Planar Arrays) provide high-resolution near-? eld and long-range, low-resolution current velocity measure-

Tech Pro? le ments on the market. RTI’s experience with this ad-

RTI’s core team is centered on advanced electronic vanced electronics platform facilitates the development engineering and signal processing development, as for state-of-art applications in underwater acoustic data well as acoustic transducer design and development collection. RTI’s accurate positioning and surveillance of traditional and multi-frequency piston products and instrumentation provides the latest and most innovative planar arrays. Our core competencies are: solutions in the ADCP/DVL industry.

effective instrumentation. Through its

McLane Research Labs long-term R&D programs and our long 121 Bernard Saint Jean Drive association with diverse researchers and

E. Falmouth, MA 02536 projects, McLane has established a sig-

T: 508-495-4000 ni? cant base of knowledge and proven

E: [email protected] technology in support of our objective.

W: www.mclanelabs.com

McLane instruments are all designed

CEO/President: Susumu Honjo to withstand the rigors of open ocean

No. of Employees: 15 and freshwater deployments. McLane

McLane Research Laboratories, produces three main product lines:

Inc. was founded in 1983 to provide

Pro? lers, Samplers, and Flotation. advanced time-series samplers and

Within pro? lers, McLane offers the Ice engineering design services to the

Tethered Pro? ler (ITP) and McLane international oceanographic commu-

Moored Pro? ler (MMP). Samplers in- nity. The objective of McLane Research clude our Sediment Traps (Mark-8 and

Laboratories is to enable investigators

Mark-78), as well as RAS, ESP, IFCB, to achieve their research and scienti? c

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