FLIPPER: Validation for Remote Ocean Imaging

About this technology

Overview

Under a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant with Stennis Space Center, Ciencia, Inc., of East Hartford, Connecticut, developed the Fluorescence Lifetime Profiler of Photochemical Efficiency in Real-time, or FLIPPER, to assist in understanding the global processes controlling the fluxes of carbon and associated biogenic elements in the oceans. Biologists and oceanographers benefit from this new device that provides real-time data of water properties essential to understanding water on a global scale. Now being used to monitor the Earth's oceans, the results of this technological partnership are also finding homes in applications as broad as agricultural analysis and pharmaceutical manufacturing.