MGDS Vocabulary Terms: platform_type

<table border=1><tr><td><strong>id</strong></td><td><strong>description</strong></td><tr><td>Aircraft</td><td>Powered airborne platform</td></tr>
<tr><td>Array</td><td>A complex platform type that is characterized by a suite of instruments/devices that are designed to operate as a unit.  Arrays can be towed or deployed on the seafloor. An example is a multi-channel seismic array.</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASV</td><td>Autonomous Surface Vehicle</td></tr>
<tr><td>AUV</td><td>Autonomous Underwater Vehicle such as ABE</td></tr>
<tr><td>Boat</td><td>A watercraft of modest size (smaller than a ship) that operates at the water surface.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cabled Observatory</td><td>Infrastructure that enables live access to instruments on the seafloor via cabled connection.</td></tr>
<tr><td>CORK</td><td>Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit. A sealed subseafloor Borehole Observatory</td></tr>
<tr><td>CTD</td><td>CTD cage to which other instruments can be attached</td></tr>
<tr><td>Elevator</td><td>A platform that is used to transport samples or equipment from the seafloor to the surface and vice versa.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Float</td><td>A platform that is carried passively by ocean currents</td></tr>
<tr><td>Float:Profiling</td><td>A free-moving platform that is equipped with sensors and records vertical profiles of water properties at regular time intervals.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Glider</td><td>A type of autonomous underwater vehicle that uses small changes in its buoyancy in order to move up and down like a profiling float. </td></tr>
<tr><td>HOV</td><td>Human-Occupied Vehicles are submersibles that carry personnel. Alvin is an example.</td></tr>
<tr><td>HROV</td><td>A Hybrid Remote Operated Vehicle (HROV) is a submersible that can be operated in two different modes, either as a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) or an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mooring</td><td>An instrument platform typically attached to the seafloor</td></tr>
<tr><td>NotApplicable</td><td>Platform type either does not apply or cannot be known</td></tr>
<tr><td>NotProvided</td><td>Platform type was not provided but can be known</td></tr>
<tr><td>ROV</td><td>Remotely Operated Vehicles are tethered to their mother platform (typically a ship) from which the vehicle is operated. ROVs do not carry personnel. An example is Jason II.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Satellite</td><td>Space-borne instrument platform</td></tr>
<tr><td>Seismic:MCS</td><td>Used primarily for entry_event_line_set Multi-Channel Seismics</td></tr>
<tr><td>Seismic:SCS</td><td>Used primarily for entry_event_line_set Single-Channel Seismics</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ship</td><td>A large watercraft that operates at the water surface.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sled</td><td>A frame on which devices are mounted. It is connected to a mother platform by a wire. It is without autonomous propulsion. Examples are WHOI TowCam, and WHOI DSL-120 platforms.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thermosalinograph</td><td>Instrument that measures sea surface temperature and salinity using a water intake system</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tripod</td><td>A three-legged platform that can be equipped with a variety of devices.</td></tr>
<tr><td>USV</td><td>Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV)</td></tr>
<tr><td>WeatherStation</td><td>Collects multiple types of weather-related data</td></tr>
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