Discrete surface turbidity samples and underway sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity measured in Aarhus Bay during a demonstration of an experimental autonomous surface vehicle

This dataset includes measurements obtained by an autonomous boat that was equipped with a surface water sampling system: the Naval Operating Research Drone Assessing Climate Change (NORDACC).   

This dataset includes two .csv files

2022-10-14_NORDACC_Turbidity.csv
This file contains the results of 8 discrete surface water samples that were analyzed for turbidity using a Hach turbidimeter. Surface water samples were acquired by NORDACC on the afternoon of 14 October 2022 in Aarhus Bay. The columns are separated by commas and correspond to: 
Sample Number, Date (yyyy-mm-dd), UTC time (HH:MM:SS), Longitude (decimal degrees), Latitude (decimal degrees), Sea Surface Temperature (SST; degC), Sea Surface Salinity (SSS)

2022-10-14_NORDACC_UnderwayData.csv
This file contains 1 Hz data, delimited by commas, that were collected while NORDACC was in operation. The underway data columns correspond to:
Date & Time (ISO format yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS), Operation State (1=initializing, 2=sailing, 3=water sample), Longitude (decimal degrees), Latitude (Latitude), Sea Surface Temperature (SST; degC), Sea Surface Salinity (SSS)

About NORDACC:

The Naval Operating Research Drone Assessing Climate Change (NORDACC) was designed by Serbian Akbulut, Jeppe Fogh Rasmussen, Christian Søndergård Hestbech, and Marius Hjorth Andersen, a group of mechatronics students at Aarhus University. The project was supervised by Prof. Claus Melvad (AU) and received external guidance by Dr. Daniel Carlson (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon). The NORDACC project was partially supported by Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and the Klaus-Tschira Boost Fund that was administered by the German Scholars Organization.

NORDACC designs, software, and BOM are open source and provided via Mendeley Data, doi:10.17632/rpzv35pccr.1 

For more information about NORDACC see the accompanying paper in HardwareX.