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June 10, 2026
Sequoia Application Note SEQ-001-V1
Beam attenuation (c, [m-1]) is a critical inherent optical property (IOP) for oceanographers studying underwater visibility and suspended particles in the water column. Measuring beam attenuation in-situ requires transmissometers...
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June 9, 2026
PyOPIA (Python Ocean Particle Image Analysis) was introduced in 2023. It is an open-source Python library for combing through large amounts of particle image data collected by camera instruments such as LISST-Holo / LISST-Holo2, SilCam, UVP-6 and others....
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June 9, 2026
You can integrate Sequoia’s LISST-Deep or LISST-200X onto a Sea-Bird CTD using the 6-pin auxiliary connector on the LISST connector endcap and a 2-m cable. This will power the instrument via the CTD and output two analog signals, one for mean particle...
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June 8, 2026
There are several ocean science community-developed and supported software resources available for LISST and Hyper users interested in logging and/or processing data in other ways than supported by Sequoia’s standard software:
PyOPIA
PyOPIA is a...
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March 30, 2026
The Boycott effect refers to the substantial enhancement of particle sedimentation rates in settling columns that are inclined relative to gravity, compared to an otherwise identical vertical settling column. It was first observed experimentally by A....
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