Fig. 2From: The generalized data management and collection protocol for Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Satellite Relay Data LoggersA diagram of the relationship and trade-offs between the rate of data collection (sampling rate) and transmission rate over the lifetime of a CTD-SRDL. The role of the pre-deployment configuration stage of the protocol is to bring this balance as close to optimal as possible (for details see Additional file 1: Supplementary material S1)Back to article page