Snout

Real-time passive acoustic monitoring and processing

JASCO’s intelligent modular solution for real-time, passive acoustic monitoring, OceanObserver™, now comes in a hydrodynamically shaped external aluminum pressure housing with an integrated M36 hydrophone. 

The Snout enables operators to easily access removeable SD memory cards and plug-in a laptop for system testing calibration and file downloads. 

 

 Features 

  • Integrated M36 hydrophone 

  • Up to 12 TB memory on removable SD cards 

  • Up to 4 mid-speed channels @ 8-512 ksps 

Applications

Marine mammal detection, identification, and localization 

  • Multi-sensor ocean observing 

  • Ambient and vessel noise quantification 

  • Wind and tidal energy monitoring 

 

Customized processing & telemetry 

On-board signal processing is done by PAMlab INT, the integrated version of JASCO’s PAMlab software suite. 

  • Real-time detection of marine mammal calls and clicks 

  • Quantify ambient noise, vessel noise, and industrial noise sources 

  • Customized processing 

For bandwidth-limited telemetry like cellular and Iridium, Snout converts the detection spectrograms into contours and ranks them by priority. The events are relayed via satellite and delivered by email. 

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Snout Datasheet

The Snout is intended to be attached to autonomous sub-sea robotic vehicles, buoys, and other platforms externally, so that JASCO systems do not need to be installed inside another pressure housing. It's made to be neutrally buoyant to streamline the integration process with different vehicles.


 
 

Contact us for support with your JASCO system.

For support resources including complete user guides, software updates, release notes, and technical bulletins, contact JASCO Technical Support.