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Pico Envirotec is a designer and manufacturer of 'state of the art', intelligent data acquisition, navigation, and remote sensing instruments. PEI instruments are designed around four major groups:
Radiation detection * Magnetic * Multi channel standard analog input * Navigation guides.
The main focus for the company is to merge the geographical positional information with the measured data. At the same time the effort is on post-collection data processing time reduction and therefore most of the raw data supplied from sensors are treated with some level of digital processing directly at the sensor site. Since the sensors now posess some intelligence applied via local microprocessor, we call them 'Intelligent' sensors [ISs].
ISs usually communicate with the data acquisition via high speed serial digital data link. Digitalization directly at the sensor location improves signal noise ratio and provides means for independent testing on most of the office computers. At the same time it provides a simple and definite border for fault location.
Our sensor arrays, acquisition systems and interfaces are designed using low power consumption micro-processors and peripherals, utilizing the widely accepted PC104 mechanical and electrical standards. Our intelligent instrumentation is able to handle raw data from multiple sensors through advanced digital processing. Our sensor packages and related support electronics and firmware are designed provide the user with both raw and processed data.
All of PEI's products are designed to be lightweight, rugged, and versatile. The instrument packages are able to be used either as stand alone instruments easily interfaced into the users existing systems. Alternatively, our data acquisition and navigation systems allow simple and efficient interfacing of sensor arrays already owned by the user. The data inputs of the data acquisition system are electrically equivalent and require just proper protocol decoding. This simplifies task of implementation of a new 'Intelligent' sensor.
PEI provides an extensive suite of software to support all of our instrumentation. The software allows the user to quickly and efficiently perform QC on the acquitted data while in the field, perform diagnostic tests on the data system functions as well as the individual sensors, test and calibrate the various sensors. PEI also provides software for survey area design, grid layout, creation of map underlay, flight path checking and data export to ASCII or Geosoft GBN files from PEI's proprietary binary file format.
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