| details | 95 | | irradiance detector | A device to measure light transmitted at various frequencies |
| details | 97 | | AATSR | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
| details | 130 | | AATSR-MET | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer real time METeorological data |
| details | 129 | | AATSR-NR | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer Near Realtime |
| details | 107 | | AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
| details | 146 | | AMR | Advanced Microwave Radiometer |
| details | 105 | | AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| details | 100 | | AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS |
| details | 115 | | AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
| details | 70 | | APBT | Autonomous Pinneped Bathythermograph (APBT) |
| details | 94 | | AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | Advanced Very High Radiation Resolution Radiometer |
| details | 121 | | AVHRR-GAC | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Global Area Coverage |
| details | 126 | | AVHRR-HRPT | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer High Resolution Picture Transmission |
| details | 120 | | AVHRR-LAC | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Local Area Coverage |
| details | 144 | | C-T recorder | An instrument that measures and records conductivity and temperature as is often attached to a mooring. |
| details | 8 | | CTD | Conductivity-Temperature-Depth probe |
| details | 23 | | CTD - moored CTD | |
| details | 9 | | CTD - specific model | specific type of CTD probe; see detailed metadata or product-specific metadata for actual probe type |
| details | 147 | | DORIS | Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated from Space |
| details | 15 | | GEK | Geomagnetic Electrokinetograph |
| details | 99 | | GOES Imager | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Imager |
| details | 54 | | GPS | Global Positioning System reciever |
| details | 148 | | GPSP | Global Positioning System space Payload |
| details | 149 | | LRA | Laser Retroreflector Array |
| details | 103 | | MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| details | 127 | | MTSAT Imager | Multi-functional Transport Satellite Imager |
| details | 145 | | Poseidon-3 altimeter | Poseidon-3 altimeter |
| details | 98 | | SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infra-Red Imager |
| details | 117 | | SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
| details | 116 | | SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
| details | 37 | | SeaSoar | |
| details | 114 | | SeaWiFS | Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor |
| details | 108 | | SeaWinds | Microwave radar (scatterometer) measuring ocean near-surface wind speed and direction |
| details | 101 | | TMI | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager |
| details | 102 | | VIRS | Visible and Infrared Scanner |
| details | 106 | | VISSR | Visible Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer |
| details | 104 | | WindSat | A multi-frequency polarimetric microwave radiometer on Coriolis satellite |
| details | 63 | | XCTD | expendable conductivity, temperature, depth profiler |
| details | 49 | | XSV | eXpendable Sound Velocity probe |
| details | 28 | | YSI - handheld multi-parameter instrument | coastal instrument used to measure temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and other parameters |
| details | 143 | | absorption and beam attenuation meter | |
| details | 82 | | accelerometer | used on moored buoys to derive wave speed |
| details | 42 | | acoustic sensor | generic instrument type for sensing sound in the water column |
| details | 137 | | bag-collection | Any type of bag for collection of marine flora or fauna specimen or coral or seabottom material |
| details | 62 | | bathythermograph - AXBT | aircraft-launched expendable bathythermograph |
| details | 4 | | bathythermograph - BT | BathyThermograph |
| details | 12 | | bathythermograph - EBT | Electronic Bathythermograph |
| details | 19 | | bathythermograph - MBT | Mechanical BathyThermograph |
| details | 48 | | bathythermograph - XBT | eXpendable BathyThermograph |
| details | 44 | | bathythermograph - uBT | Micro BathyThermograph |
| details | 2 | | biota surveys | use as an observation type |
| details | 3 | | bottle | any type of water bottle sampling device |
| details | 133 | | bucket | |
| details | 51 | | buoy | generic type of floating instrumentation package |
| details | 41 | | buoy - TAO buoy | use buoy - moored buoy instead of TAO buoy |
| details | 11 | | buoy - drifting buoy | |
| details | 85 | | buoy - moored - waverider | A moored waverider buoy which measures (at least) wave height |
| details | 22 | | buoy - moored buoy | |
| details | 84 | | buoy - non-instrumented drifiting device | generic current measuring device that carries no instrument package |
| details | 124 | | calipers | An instrument for measuring distance. |
| details | 125 | | camera | An instrument for recording images. |
| details | 128 | | chain | A 10-meter chain to be used in a linear transect method of measurement |
| details | 135 | | chisel | |
| details | 122 | | clock | An instrument for measuring time. |
| details | 53 | | compass | magnetic compass |
| details | 88 | | conductivity sensor | OMEGA non-contact conductivity sensor CDCN-108 |
| details | 55 | | continuous plankton recorder | |
| details | 7 | | coral reef surveys | |
| details | 92 | | corer | submersible, hydraulic rotary coring drill |
| details | 10 | | current meter | |
| details | 1 | | current meter - ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
| details | 72 | | current meter - PCM | profiling current meter |
| details | 139 | | current profiler-expendable (XCP) | A profiler which collects current speed, direction and temperature in an ocean column |
| details | 131 | | cytometer-submersible flow | a device to measure phytoplanton and other suspended particles in situ and unattended |
| details | 91 | | documentation only - no instrument type | |
| details | 86 | | dredge | 6 x6 inch, weighted drege |
| details | 61 | | echo sounder | instrument used to determine water depth or bathymetry |
| details | 56 | | flow meter | |
| details | 13 | | fluorometer | |
| details | 14 | | gas chromatograph | |
| details | 79 | | hydrometer | a device for measuring seawater density |
| details | 83 | | inclinometer | used on moored buoys to derive wave steepness or height |
| details | 66 | | instrumented tower | A tower on shore or in water with various instruments |
| details | 132 | | inverted echo sounder (IES) | A ocean bottom-moored instrument that measures the vertical acoustical travel time round-trip from the sea floor to the sea surface and back. |
| details | 17 | | laboratory analysis | use as an observation type |
| details | 20 | | meteorological sensors | |
| details | 6 | | meteorological sensors - coastal meteorological stations | |
| details | 24 | | mooring | use as an observation type |
| details | 118 | | nephelometer | a device for measuring the size and concentration of particles ina liquid by an analysis of the ligh transmitted through or reflected by the liquid. |
| details | 25 | | net | |
| details | 5 | | net - CalVET net tows | |
| details | 21 | | net - MOCNESS net tows | |
| details | 31 | | net - plankton net | |
| details | 68 | | net - zooplankton net | |
| details | 26 | | not applicable | |
| details | 27 | | oxygen meter | |
| details | 50 | | pH meter | generic meter used to measure pH |
| details | 29 | | peristaltic pump | not an instrument - maybe an observation type |
| details | 30 | | photograph | still images used as the basis for making parameter determinations |
| details | 73 | | pressure gauge | pressure gauge |
| details | 32 | | profiling floats | PALACE and other types of profiling drifters |
| details | 65 | | profiling reflectance radiometer | |
| details | 33 | | pump casts | use pump sampler |
| details | 34 | | pump sampler | generic name for instrument that pumps water from depth to be filtered through a sieve |
| details | 140 | | radar-high frequency oceanographic | |
| details | 64 | | radiometer | |
| details | 35 | | refractometer | |
| details | 75 | | salinometer | generic salinometer |
| details | 18 | | satellite - LandSat | |
| details | 110 | | satellite sensor - active microwave | A space-borne sensor actively observing in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| details | 119 | | satellite sensor - altimeter | |
| details | 36 | | satellite sensor - general | A generic class used for unknown satellite sensor type, or datasets consisting of blended, merged, or otherwise mixed observations from multiple satellite sensor types |
| details | 111 | | satellite sensor - infrared | A space-borne sensor observing in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| details | 109 | | satellite sensor - passive microwave | A space-borne sensor passively observing in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| details | 112 | | satellite sensor - visible | A space-borne sensor observing in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| details | 113 | | satellite sensor - visible to infrared | A space-borne sensor observing in the visible through infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum |
| details | 123 | | scale | An instrument for measuring mass or weight. |
| details | 38 | | secchi disk | |
| details | 81 | | sediment sampler - corer | sediment coring device |
| details | 16 | | sediment sampler - grab | |
| details | 90 | | sediment sieve | USA standard testing sieve (A.S.T.M.E.) |
| details | 87 | | seine | a weighted net which collapses inward to trap fish |
| details | 69 | | sidescan sonar | used to make detailed imagery of seafloor |
| details | 141 | | sound velocimeter - moving vessel profiler | An underway profiler for measuring sound velocity |
| details | 96 | | sound velocimeter- odom digibar | an electronic device for measuring sound speed in water |
| details | 39 | | surface seawater intake | not an instrument or observation type |
| details | 40 | | swimmer/diver | not an instrument - use as observation type |
| details | 89 | | temperature probe | OMEGA twemperature probe PR-11-2-100-1/8-6-e |
| details | 71 | | thermistor | electronic temperature sensor |
| details | 138 | | thermograph | A recording instrument that provides a continuous record of temperature with time. |
| details | 76 | | thermometer | generic thermometer or reversing thermometer |
| details | 43 | | thermosalinograph | |
| details | 80 | | tide gauge | a device to measure the tidal height |
| details | 134 | | tongs | |
| details | 136 | | tow-fish | A towed, undulating vehicle systen designed for collecting profile data of the water column in oceanographic, bathymetric and environmental monitoring applications |
| details | 74 | | transmissometer | transmissometer |
| details | 57 | | trap | generic type of instrument used to capture sediment, animals, etc. |
| details | 59 | | trap - plankton | one of several specific type of instrument used to capture plankton |
| details | 58 | | trap - sediment | one of several specific type of instrument used to capture sediment |
| details | 67 | | trawl | |
| details | 77 | 701 | video - LAPS - autonomous video camera | autonomous video camera |
| details | 52 | | video camera | a camera which makes moving or still images used as the basis for making parameter determinations |
| details | 78 | | visual analysis | visual analysis and measurement of sample materials |
| details | 45 | | visual estimate | not an instrument - maybe an observation type |
| details | 46 | | visual observation | not an instrument - maybe an observation type |
| details | 93 | | water level recorder | A seabed mounted unit calculating water level by means of precise measurements of hydrostatic pressure. |
| details | 47 | | water quality sensors | |
| details | 142 | | wave gauge- non-directional | NIWA Dobie-A non-directional wave gauge |
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