Song Meter SM3M Deep Water

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Song Meter SM3M Deep Water Submarine Bioacoustics Recorder

The most economical deep-water marine bioacoustics and ambient noise recorder designed for extended deployments down to 1,000 meters.

The 3rd generation Song Meter SM3M Deep Water is built for long-term monitoring in extreme offshore environments, providing the recording flexibility and precision of conventional recorders at a significantly lower cost. With a recording bandwidth of 2 Hz to 192 kHz, it is the ideal tool for characterizing baseline ambient noise levels and capturing loud anthropogenic sounds, such as pile drivers and airguns, within a single deployment. Its rugged design allows for operation at depths up to 1,000 meters, utilizing adaptive triggering and compression to maximize deployment times without human intervention.

Key Features

• Multi-Role Assignments: Program the SM3M to monitor multiple species simultaneously, from infrasonic to ultrasonic, by adjusting sample rates, gain, and filters across one or two hydrophones.
• Long-Term Deployment: Deploy for several weeks or months thanks to negligible power consumption in sleep mode and high energy efficiency, perfect for remote baseline studies.
• Massive Storage Capacity: Features four SDXC/SDHC card slots, enabling the storage of over a terabyte of acoustic data—from faint biological clicks and whistles to the loudest industrial noises.
• Shipside Serviceability: Designed for quick servicing and redeployment at sea; access SD cards and the PC board easily using the included spanner wrench.
• Customizable Hydrophone Setup: Choose from standard acoustic, ultrasonic, low-noise, or high-SPL hydrophones to meet specific performance criteria and research goals.
• Analysis with Song Scope: Compatible with Song Scope software, which allows for visualization of long-term sound energy and reviewing audio 10-20 times faster than traditional listening.

The most economical deep water marine bioacoustics and ambient noise recorder.

The new, 3rd generation Song Meter SM3M Deep Water is designed for extended deployments in extreme off-shore environments and offers the same recording flexibility and precision of conventional recorders costing much more.

With a recording bandwidth of 2 Hz to 192 kHz, it is ideal for recording ambient noise levels for baseline characterization and capturing loud noises, including anthropogenic sounds like those from pile drivers and airguns. Best of all this can be done with a single unit during the same deployment.

Program for multiple-role assignments
The SM3M Deep Water can be programmed to optimize for different recording objectives on the same hydrophone or two hydrophones using a flexible two-channel input. The recorder's configuration utility allows you adjust settings for sample rate, gain, filters, and triggers.

Should you need to monitor a variety of sea life in a single deployment, the SM3M Deep Water can monitor for multiple species’ acoustics from infrasonic to ultrasonic at the same time or by scheduling different sample rates at different times.

Deploy for several weeks or several months
The SM3M Deep Water is designed to record ambient, biological and anthropogenic sounds down to 1000 meters. Extreme depths typically involve longer-than-usual deployments and so the recorder features adaptive triggering and compression to further extend deployment times.

You can deploy for months at a time using a recording schedule or duty cycle with neglible power consumption during sleep mode.

Capture more than a terabyte of echolocation data
The SM3M Deep Water uses SDXC and SDHC cards. There are four card slots and with each card capable of storing 256 gigabytes of vocalization data. Combined with the SM3M's adaptive triggering and compression, storage capacity exceeds a terabyte. That means more data containing everything from the faintest drumming, clicks and whistles to the l baseline loudest anthropogenic noises.

Service and redeploy while at sea
The SM3M Deep Water is designed to be quickly serviced and redeployed shipside, saving valuable time and money. Simply unscrew the recorder's hydrophone cap with the supplied spanner wrench and pull out the pc board. SD cards can be easily accessed and the unit can be quickly reprogrammed for any changes in deployment objectives.

The SM3M can be quickly anchored and recovered via tether, diver or acoustic release.

Customize to suite your specific needs
The SM3M Deep Water can be configured in a variety ways to meet your recording needs. We have selected an assortment of hydrophones for specific applications that meet strict performance criteria. You can outfit the SM3M with our standing acoustic hydrophone, upgrade to either an ultrasonic hydrophone or low-noise hydrophone or choose our high SPL, dual hydrophone option.

Should you require more placement flexibility, you can special order cabled hydrophones as well.

Song Scope Analysis Software

One of the fastest and most intuitive spectrogram viewers available.

Song Scope software is fast and flexible, designed to help you quickly review recordings made by Song Meter or other conventional bioacoustics recording equipment. The software features a flexible spectrogram viewer that lets you scroll through large audio files and is typically 10-20 times more time efficient than simply listening. Song Scope’s Song Scape feature lets you visualize sounds on large temporal scales so you can measure sound energy in months and years instead of seconds.

• Specifications
• In the Box
• Required Items
• Optional Items

• Working Depth	Rated to 1,000 meters (800 meters standard rating)
  Recording Format	32-bit WAV (24-bit dynamic range) for acoustic | 16-bit for ultrasonic
  Recording Bandwidth	2 Hz to 192 kHz (Infrasonic, Acoustic, and Ultrasonic)
  Sample Rates	Up to 192,000 samples per second on one or two channels
  Internal Power	Up to 64 D-size alkaline or NiMH batteries
  Power Longevity	162 days continuous (2-48kHz) | 135 days continuous (96-192kHz)
  Storage Capacity	4 SDHC/SDXC slots (Up to 2.0 TB total capacity supported)
  Storage Longevity	618 days (at 8kHz) | 102 days (at 48kHz) | 26 days (at 192kHz) with 1 TB
  Dimensions	Diameter: 6.5” (16.5 cm) | Length: 58.3” (148.0 cm)
  Weight (Air)	24.4 kg (no batteries) | 32.2 kg (with 64 D batteries)
  Buoyancy (Water)	+1.0 kg (no batteries) | -9.8 kg (with 64 D batteries)

• • 1x Song Meter SM3M Deep Water Recorder
  • 1x Spanner wrench (for internal access and maintenance)
• • SM3M Deep Water Hydrophone Options
  • D-size alkaline or NiMH batteries (Up to 64 units)
  • SDHC/SDXC Memory Cards (Class 4 or higher)
  • Song Scope Analysis Software
• • GPS Time-Sync Receiver (for multi-unit synchronization)
  • External Power Cable (supports 5V to 17V DC)
  • Cabled hydrophones (Special order only)

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