Experience with an Argos-3 Satellite System to Tracking and Data Collection from Marine Drifting Buoys
Journal: Bulletin of the South Ural State University Ser Computer Technologies Automatic Control & Radioelectronics
Year: 2015

The technical characteristics of the new satellite communication system Argos-3 are investigated with reference to the drifter experiments in the World Ocean and the Black Sea. A comparison of the standards of satellite communication systems Argos-2 and Argos-3 is carried out. The distinctive features of the Argos-3 from the previous generations of the system are greatly increased bandwidth and a significant reduction of the data equipment power consumption through the use of the reverse link fo