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18. SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]

The Company operates principally in two industry segments: the manufacturing of standard products consisting of hydrological, meteorological and oceanic monitoring and control products which are sold off-the-shelf and systems that are comprised of standard products and custom items as required by the system specification also including software and services including installation, training, and maintenance of systems. Corporate assets consisted mainly of cash, prepaid expenses, deferred taxes, and income tax receivables. The results of these segments are shown below (in thousands):

	Years Ended Dec. 31	Net Sales		Operating Income (Loss)		Total Assets		Depreciation		Capital Expenditures
Standard Products	2012	$	8,132	$	1,163	$	6,728	$	139	$	9
	2011		9,023		1,166		6,021		147		36
	2010		12,944		2,866		5,802		95		29

Systems/Services	2012		17,098		194		7,266		176		170
	2011		11,199		963		6,502		121		51
	2010		10,032		1,551		5,284		183		71

Corporate and Unallocated	2012		-		-		12,916		-		-
	2011		-		-		11,560		-		-
	2010		-		-		11,901		-		-

Total Company	2012	$	25,230	$	1,357	$	26,910	$	315	$	179
	2011		20,222		2,129		24,083		268		87
	2010		22,976		4,417		22,987		278		100

Schedule of Revenue from External Customers Attributed to Foreign Countries by Geographic Area [Table Text Block]

Export sales were based on countries where the customers were located. Central and South America includes all countries south of the United States. Asia includes customers in Australia, China, India, Korea and New Zealand. Europe and other consists of Europe and Africa. The Middle East was primarily sales to Afghanistan and Iraq. Export sales from the Company’s operations at December 31, were as follow (in thousands):

	2012		2011		2010
Central and South America	$	2,278	$	3,852	$	3,703
Canada		1,707		1,759		1,959
Asia		3,380		1,570		1,746
Europe and other		2,723		473		736
Middle East		4,336		2,978		719
	$	14,424	$	10,632	$	8,863

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Tabular disclosure of the names of foreign countries from which revenue is material and the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to those countries. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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