Personal Computer Based System for Analog-to-Digital and Serial CommunicationData Acquisition

摘要

PCPLUSS and the companion programs were developed to sample continuous anddiscrete data for a variety of environmental sensors during transits of a research vessel; it was specifically designed for the MOPS (Monitoring Of Porpoise Stocks) program to utilize an inexpensive personal computer (PC), but it also has potential use in any R/V oceanographic program due to its inherent expandibility. PCPLUSS is a compiled BASIC program designed to sample, average and store multiple streams of data from a variety of sources. The input data are averaged and stored as: data, time, latitude, longitude, temperature, salinity, fluorescence voltage, fluorometer scale, mode of operation, and speed indicator. The program can be modified to handle other analog data inputs as needed.