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Low-cost wildlife tags that perform with minimal drag and use wrap-around solar panels to provide an easy-to-deploy experience.

Available Options:

1. Stock Assessment & Mortality Series

2. High Performance Studies

3. Marine Vertebrates 

4. Customized Projects

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Which SeaTag works best for me?

Stock Assessment & Mortality 

Want to learn where animals are reproducing and where? Our S.A.M. SeaTags have you covered. Built for massive scale deployments, yet capable enough to deliver results in small numbers.

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High Performance Studies

Used for specialized studies, the SeaTag-MOD is equipped with extra features. The tag is ideal for researchers exploring complex animal behaviors over extended periods.

Available products:

  • SeaTag-MOD™
  • Optional battery module

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Marine Vertebrates

Our SeaTag-TT, a S.P.O.T. Tag can handle any animals that spend time at the surface or on land! This one is quite easy to use and designed for mass deployments! 

Available products:

  • SeaTag-TT™ (17g)
  • SeaTag-TT™ (25g)

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 What is a SeaTag™?

Desert Star’s SeaTag family of electronic animal tags is the result of an NOAA sponsored SBIR program and acknowledges the two fundamental demands of the agency: boosting innovation in tag design and significantly reducing tag cost.

Prior to SeaTag, pop-up satellite tags cost $4000 each severely limiting their use. SeaTag revolutionized the tagging field by offering stored solar power systems augmented by batteries, functionality for freshwater use, magnetic sensing for reliable position estimation, fouling resistant housings and much lower pricing for much larger sample size.

These advances in the field have created two distinct product lines: S.A.M. tags (Stock Assessment and Mortality Tags) and an advanced studies pop-up satellite tag (SeaTag-MOD).

SeaTag’s strong technological and cost advantages are the result of Desert Star’s broad experience in many underwater technologies and economies of scale provided by our multiple product lines. A modular design approach and a large design library underpin all of our products and allow our creative workforce to learn quickly and design new tag versions efficiently using a ‘cut & paste’ approach. Reliability is thus enhanced as new tags ‘inherit’ the field record of established design blocks.

In addition, all SeaTag devices come with an extended warranty (ST-GOLD) option that covers non-reporting, under-reporting or otherwise non-functional tags during and after their deployment periods. If a tag falls under one of several categories, Desert Star Systems ships a replacement tag at no additional cost.

SeaTag presents a change in the concept of satellite tagging transitioning from studies using 10 or 20 tags to a systematic method of data collection, retrieval, and deployment utilizing a complementing line of pop-up satellite tags. No longer should you deploy a few tags of just one type! Instead, use a targeted collection of SeaTag devices to maximize your data return while minimizing study costs.

Solar Powered

Wrap-around solar panels for uniform 360-degree light detection, months and even years of reporting times after pop-off for maximum data recovery and maximum opportunity for physical recovery.  

Minimal Drag

Less drag means better tag retention and compatibility with smaller and faster species.

Evidence-based Tracking

SeaTag yields entirely transparent and defensible direct-measured positions based on the simple intersection of magnetic field intensity for latitude and robust light measurements for longitude.   

For Fresh & Salt Water

Our kinetic release payload section allows use in any water system. 

We've got your tags covered with SeaTag-GOLD

Under this program, any tag that fails to meet the demands of your mission will be replaced, free of charge, provided that you keep your tag properly affixed to your organism of study!

Some reasonable exclusions may apply. See the SeaTag-GOLD page for more detals.

Customization

Desert Star's tags can be customized for even the most demanding missions.This "SeaTag-6K", built for for extreme depth, was used to tag an elusive Megamouth Shark,  Megachasma pelagios

            Spawning Detection

            Born out of 2019 NOAA SBIR research, the SeaTag-3DS works in tandem with an implanted JSATS pinger to detect fish spawning location.

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