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Baseline characterization
Collect long-duration physical, chemical, acoustic, and biological measurements before operations begin.
Application / Seabed operations and compliance
Independent, persistent monitoring around deep-ocean operations.
Aphotic can establish environmental baselines and monitor sediment, acoustics, chemistry, and habitat response before, during, and after seabed activity.
Primary objectiveMeasure operational and environmental change
System configurationArgus X field with Nexus mission management
Operator outputBaseline comparisons, event records, and compliance data
A monitoring layer that remains after the survey ship leaves.
Deep-ocean activity can affect a large area and evolve over long periods. Short campaigns may miss transient events or make it difficult to separate natural variability from operational effects.
A distributed Argus X field can collect repeatable observations across impact, reference, and boundary locations. Nexus coordinates the mission, tracks data provenance and system health, and supports comparison across locations and time.
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Plume and sediment monitoring
Observe turbidity, current, deposition, and related change across a distributed field.
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Acoustic environment
Measure operational sound and background variability at locations selected for regulatory and scientific value.
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Post-operation response
Continue monitoring habitat and environmental conditions after active work has ended.
System approach
Distributed measurements show both local effects and the wider environmental context.
Persistent nodes can remain at reference and impact locations under one mission plan, improving comparison and reducing dependence on repeated ship campaigns.
Relevant systems
Select the Argus housing by depth and the sensor stack by mission.
Argus A, B, and X share a common seabed sensing, edge-processing, storage, power-management, and acoustic-communications architecture. Atlas services the deployed fleet, while Nexus provides the operating picture, planning, alerts, and tasking above it.