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OBS (Optical Backscatter Sensor)

Also Optical Backscattering Sensor; same as scatterometer.  Typically refers to sensors intended to measure turbidity and sediment concentrations, but the term is not specific to those applications.  For example see the HydroScat Family, which measure both optical backscatter at multiple wavelengths, and fluorescence.
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