Office/Division Program
TAP
Project Number
11
Category
Research Initiation Date (Award Date)
Research Performing Activity
Harry Diamond Laboratories
Research Principal Investigator
Mr. Edward Burke
Research Contracting Agency
Description
The development of a 'breadboard' portable data recording system which could be used by Government inspectors to obtain both digital and verbal data during periodic inspections of offshore installations.
Latest progress update
Complete. After design and fabrication of hardware for evaluation of the system, it was decided to study the human capabilities for using such a complex recording system. Human engineering specialists from the Army Research Institute concluded that it was too complex but recommended changes in existing Outer Continental Shelf data acquisitions and storage methods.