Marine Industries Ocean Systems is a for profit corporation working in the marine community. In October 1996 MTS held its annual meeting in Ft. Lauderdale's Convention Center. Active participation from marine industries is highly desirable and likely to come. I believe participation will be as diverse as what we seek to measure.
Environmental monitoring is essential for informed decision making.
In city, county, and State urban areas waterways are subject to higher stress from dense and varied boat traffic requirements. In general background waves are higher with more activities on the water. Accurate low cost measurement technology is now available to monitor the state of inland waterways. A distributed system of environmental measurements will provide both background information and documentation if needed for enforcement. When you begin making measurements then you know what the background levels are now.