Product profile
DVL 1000
Nortek DVL 1000 is a compact survey-grade Doppler velocity log for subsea navigation, providing bottom tracking, water tracking and current profiling for A...
Facts
- Company
- Nortek
- Product type
- component
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- underwater_navigation
- Website
- https://www.nortekgroup.com/products/dvl-1000-300m
About DVL 1000
Nortek DVL 1000 is a compact survey-grade Doppler velocity log for subsea navigation, providing bottom tracking, water tracking and current profiling for AUV, ROV and USV integration.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Doppler velocity log
Core: DVL 1000
Function: Underwater velocity and navigation sensing
Audience: Subsea vehicle integrators
Specifications
- average_power_w
- Average power 1.3 W at stated conditions W
- current_profile_range_m
- Current profiling range up to 30 m m
- depth_rating
- Maximum operational depth 300 m m
- dimensions
- Diameter 114 mm mm
- frequency
- 1 MHz Doppler velocity log MHz
- height_mm
- Height 158 mm mm
- interfaces
- Configurable RS-232/RS-422 or 10/100 Ethernet; NMEA0183 and PDx variants
- long_term_accuracy
- ±0.1% / ±0.1 cm/s export-controlled; greater than 1% license-free
- resolution
- Velocity resolution 0.01 mm/s mm/s
- sampling_frequency_hz
- Maximum ping rate 8 Hz Hz
- survey_range
- Bottom track from 0.1 to 75 m range
- system_components
- Four-beam Janus array with 25° beam angle beams
- water_track_accuracy
- 0.3% of measured value ±0.3 cm/s
- weight_kg
- Weight 1.7 kg; weight in water 0.3 kg kg
Operations
- Environment
- underwater vehicle, shallow-water subsea navigation
- Primary user
- AUV and ROV integrators, diver navigation system builders
- Role
- bottom-track velocity, water-track backup, current profiling
- Interaction model
- embedded acoustic navigation sensor
- Mobility class
- fixed onboard DVL
- Product detail
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