One page, four registers stacked — Showcase, Editorial,
Data, Index. The Constitution retunes every register at once.
Each register then has its own element-level knobs — section surface and in-section element surfaces are
separate, charts have their own type/ink/panel/grid. Data is the only place aqua-deep on paper appears.
Excitation and emission, resolved per pulse — not integrated downstream.
From the Black Sea and the Caspian to the Arctic Kara Sea, the Volga reservoirs and the Venice lagoon — a field record measured, not estimated.
Laser-induced fluorescence reads the water column directly. Where a flow-through fluorometer reports one integrated number, the instrument resolves the full emission across forty-eight bands per pulse, so the signature of each compound stays separable.
The science and the field record do the heavy lifting. The copy doesn't need to.
That record is public: forty years of laser remote-sensing literature and twenty of deployment, linked in the research index below.
| Excitation λ | 405 | nm |
|---|---|---|
| Emission bands | 48 | |
| Depth rating | 200 | m |
| Sample rate | 10 | Hz |
| Mass · air | 6.2 | kg |