tables

Table 1 is from Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) operation reports, whereas Table 2 is from Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) planning reports. Table 3 is the product of instrument storage capacities and predicted instrument counts, both from Table 2.

Table 1 - Total number of tags, detections and detections per tags managed by Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) system for the period 2004-6.

2004 2005 2006 sum
tags 1012 1918 3710 6640
detects 293206 487825 610578 1391609
detects.per.tag 289 254 164 209

Table 2 - Planned instrument deployments by Ocean Tracking Network in 2008 and 2010.

type capacity MB 2008 2010
ultrasonic receivers 8 164 1400
archival tags 64 600 2500
benthic pods 1024 4 50

Table 3 - Projected storage capacity (G Bytes) of Ocean Tracking Network instruments for the period 2008-20.

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 sum
ultrasonic receivers 2 7 12 17 22 27 31 36 41 46 51 56 61 403
archival tags 39 100 161 221 282 343 404 464 525 586 647 708 768 5242
benthic pods 5 28 52 75 99 122 146 169 193 217 240 264 287 1891
combined 44 134 223 312 401 491 580 669 759 848 937 1027 1116 7535
cumulative 44 177 400 712 1113 1603 2182 2851 3609 4457 5394 6420 7535