Metrozet Company Profile

iMonitoring –Triaxial Seismic Accelerometer – Digital Sensor – 6DOF Strong Motion – Ultra Broadband Electronics – 24-bit Seismographic Digitizer

The Metrozet Mission

The Metrozet mission is to deliver high-performance products that enable the protection of people, property and the environment through superior seismic and structural monitoring systems.

Key Application Areas

Metrozet products are used around the world. In addition to academic research, our products find application in tsunami warning centers, nuclear test monitoring networks, oil and gas enterprises, and structural monitoring systems. Click on an images above to learn more about our product offerings and please contact us with your application requirements in these key areas.

Metrozet Leadership: LLC Member Biographies

Tom VanZandt
tom.vanzandt@metrozet.com

Tom has extensive experience in the development of sensors, instrumentation and advanced metrology techniques for applications in geophysics, seismology, space physics, and optical telecommunications. Tom has successfully commercialized technologies through product development and intellectual property licensing agreements as well as new venture formation and management. Tom earned a BA in physics from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University.

Stephen Manion
stephen.manion@metrozet.com

Steve brings leadership experience in advanced engineering projects across a broad range of applications. As a product development manager in the private sector, Steve led teams that delivered advanced wingtip metrology systems for an aircraft synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system and a micromachined silicon (MEMS) optical switch system. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Steve developed high reliability instrumentation and sensors for both laboratory and space flight experiments. Steve holds a bachelors degree (BEE) in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware, and masters (MSEE) and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.

Eric Canuteson
eric.canuteson@metrozet.com

Eric has extensive product development and technology management experience in sensors, geophysics, instrumentation, energy, fiber optics and structural monitoring. Eric has led technology innovation and product development efforts that resulted in awards from NASA, the ASAE (American Society of Agricultural Engineers), SENSORS, and the ISA (Instrument Society of America). Eric holds a BA in physics from Colorado College and a PhD from the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the University of California, San Diego.

Metrozet Bibliography: Select Publications and Patents Authored by the Members of Metrozet

"A Novel Distributed Brillouin Fiber Optic Sensor System for Pipeline Monitoring," Exposicion y Conferencia del Petroleo de Mexico (2006)

"A Wireless Web-Native Remote Monitoring and Control System," Computing and Control Engineering, 14(4), 22-26 (2003)

"The Density Structure Associated with Oceanic Crustal Rifting at the Hess Deep: a Seafloor and Sea-Surface Gravity Study," Earth and Planetary Science Letters 171(1), 21-34 (1999)

"Corehole Seismometer Development for Low Noise Seismic Data in a Long-Term Seafloor Observatory," Geophysical Research Letters 25, 2745 (1998)

"Technique for the Measurement of the Noise of a Sensor in the Presence of Large Background Signals," Review of Scientific Instruments 69, 2767 (1998)

"An Absolute Method of Vertical Seismometer Calibration by Reference to a Falling Mass with Application to the Measurement of the Gain," Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am. 87, 484-493 (1997)

"Fabrication of Collimating Grids for an X-Ray Solar Telescope using LIGA Methods," Microsyst Technol 3, 91 (1997)

"Fiber-optic Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Vibration-isolated Interferometer for use in Absolute Gravity Meters", Applied Optics 35(19), 3500-3505 (1996)

"Micro Weather Stations for Mars," Acta Astronautica 35, 407 (1995)

"Ballistic-Electron-Emission Microscopy of Strained SiGe/Si Layers," Phys. Rev. B 50, 8082 (1994)

"Iron Overlayer Polarization Enhancement Technique for Spin Polarized Electron Microscopy," Journal of Applied Physics 69, 1564 (1991)

"Lateral Tunneling Through Voltage Controlled Barriers," Appl. Phys. Lett. 59, 213 (1991)

US Patents 4,751,529; 5,211,051; 5,364,185; 5,563,344; 5,461,914; 5,637,797; 6,075,754; 6,363,035

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