JASCO Research Ltd.

Description

NATURE OF BUSINESS

Our company carries out under contract applied research and development in the areas of physical oceanography, underwater and airborne acoustics, geophysics, acoustic environmental impact assessment, distributed environmental monitoring and scientific data analysis. We also manufacture a line of products that provide unique solutions to the oceanographic and environmental research and survey communities.


COMPANY HISTORY

JASCO Research Ltd is a small Canadian research and development firm that was established in 1981. Our research team is composed of professionals drawn from a broad range of disciplines including underwater acoustics, geophysics, geology, physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, and computer science.


TECHNOLOGY FOCUS

The principal activities of JASCO Research Ltd fall into three broad categories:

1) Applied research in the propagation of sound both in air and in water from a variety of industrial and military sources, aimed at providing an accurate estimation of their environmental effect on a variety of organisms such as marine mammals, fish, birds and humans. We have developed our own sophisticated modelling software for a broad range of scenarios and conditions, and we provide consulting services to a number of agencies in North America.

2) Development of commercial software for the acquisition, validation, storage and dissemination of data from environmental sensors (meteorological, air and water quality, and others). We provide a full range of support services from custom development of specialized features to deployment and integration with pre-
existing systems.

3) Development and marketing of advanced instruments and sensors that are applicable to environment related activities such as the assessment of the accumulation of detritus and industrial sludge in lakes, rivers and harbours or the counting of transiting fish stocks in streams.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS

JEMS: an intelligent, database driven polling and data management application for the automatic retrieval, parsing, quality control, storage and distribution of data from remote monitoring hardware. JEMS is the commercial development of a system that currently manages air quality information for the entire Province of British Columbia in Canada, and is based on the powerful Oracle™ database technology running on a Windows™
NT computer platform. Among the capabilities of JEMS is its flexibility in adapting to the communications protocol of a large number of data logger types, making it an ideal system when there is a requirement to integrate diverse pre-existing sources of data. Another advanced characteristic of the system is its extensive use of the Internet and World Wide Web, which includes fully browser-based data retrieval and system control as well as automatic and selective notification via e-mail of any conditions that exceed preset limits.

STING: A self-contained accelerometer probe that measures and records with great accuracy the thickness and bearing strength of the first metre to three metres of bottom sediment in lakes, rivers or harbours. This instrument can be used to assess the accumulation of bottom silt, detritus or industrial sludge in environmentally sensitive areas and to gather information on the sediment consistency. It can be hand deployed easily by a single operator from a small boat and is ideal both for systematic surveys and for rapid spot checks. Powerful and intuitive analysis software provides nearly immediate interpretation of the data soon after the probe is brought back on board.

UWINSTRU: a cost-effective and reliable underwater attitude measurement package that provides a continuous reading of the compass heading, pitch, roll and depth of any structure or device to which it is attached. These units can provide the necessary orientation data for equipment used in the monitoring of water parameters or in the measurement of biomass. An important application of this instrument has been the precise aiming of sonar transducers used to count fish populations transiting in rivers. The capability to measure and maintain precise sonar orientation has provided a significant increase in the accuracy and reliability of this fishery management tool at a number of installations.


PARTNERING INTERESTS

JASCO Research Ltd invites partnerships with companies involved in:

· Monitoring of air/water quality and other parameters
· Environmental impact assessment studies (noise pollution)
· Marketing and distribution of scientific instrumentation
· Environmental and scientific data analysis

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