ASL Environmental Sciences
Offers integrated marine technology solutions including sensors and data analysis for environmental monitoring.
ASL Environmental Sciences specializes in active underwater acoustics and remote sensing, and it combines those capabilities with scientific consulting, field services, and the design and build of specialized acoustic equipment. Its work covers oceanographic instrumentation, acoustics, remote sensing, and environmental consulting, with support for clients who need reliable data and analysis for complex environmental problems. The company's expertise includes flow measurement, wave analysis, sediment transport, ice studies, and remote sensing, and it also provides data products and customized data products for measurements such as ADCP wave and current data, Ice Profiling Sonar data, CTDs, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, and other water-quality information. ASL serves oceanographic, environmental, and scientific applications across oceans, coastal waters, lakes, rivers, streams, reservoirs, and polar regions, and it describes uses in areas such as fisheries and ecosystem surveys, offshore energy development, hydroelectric facilities, environmental monitoring, and water quality assessment.
The company's product line centers on oceanographic and acoustic instruments. It manufactures the Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) family and related instruments for multi-frequency or single-frequency ecosystem monitoring, including compact versions for challenging environments. It also makes ice-focused instruments such as the Ice Profiling Sonar (IPS) and the Shallow Water Ice Profiler (SWIP), and it offers the AZFP-ice combination system for monitoring the water column and ice. In addition, ASL produces the Acoustic Scintillation Flow Meter (ASFM) for discharge measurements in hydroelectric power plant intakes, along with custom mooring frames and cages and product distribution for represented ocean technology products.
ASL's services are broader than instrumentation alone. It offers remote sensing services including wide-area satellite change detection, historical change analysis, continuous monitoring, alerting, habitat mapping, water-property analysis, landcover classification, mineral mapping, site monitoring, object detection and classification, and material identification. Its ice studies services include sea ice, iceberg, lake, and river ice work, real-time ice measurement systems, sea-ice data products, and analysis using upward-looking sonar data. The company also provides biological studies, physical oceanography, limnology and acoustics, numerical modeling, sediment transport studies, data processing and analysis, scientific reporting, field work, deployment support, mooring design, equipment leasing, and custom subsea mooring solutions.