ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Presents a collection of slides covering the following topics: common sensors; measurement of data; data and interoperability; data acquisition; and, ocean industry data.
We propose the construction of a seawater temperature observation network that utilizes many compact “ubiquitous buoys” to measure water temperature at different locations and depths. Seawater temperature is an important consideration when determining a suitable timing for various aquacultural operations ...
Sensors used for in-situ water monitoring are subject to biological fouling, siltation, and scaling [3]. Fouling causes inaccurate measurements. Sensor maintenance is resource intensive. Techniques that lengthen the maintenance interval will improve measurements and conserve resources. Materials, mechanical ...
The Tasmanian Marine Analysis Network (Tas-MAN) project has initiatives to reduce costs at every level of a marine sensor network; including hardware, deployment, maintenance, data management, and information delivery.
In-situ measurements are essential for monitoring, understanding, and predicting marine phenomena. Monitoring and sampling missions often require observations of phenomena with spatial and temporal dynamics that span different scales (e.g. seconds to months, meters to kilometers, etc). A combination ...
Hawaii's wave energy resource is abundant enough, theoretically, to supply most of the state's electricity. In addition, the Hawaiian Islands are situated perfectly for ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC). Tidal and ocean current resources, however, are less promising. The State of Hawaii's Renewable ...
The World Ocean Council is developing a global portal for coordinating scientific community collaboration with ocean industries in collecting oceanic and atmospheric information. The International Ocean Science and Industry Partnership Platform is being developed as a major new initiative and opportunity ...
Dissolved greenhouse gas measurements (GHG) are of increasing importance for science, monitoring agencies and industry. Sensors for dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are applied in a growing number of applications. At the same time the number of mobile platforms deployed in the field ...
Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the energy stored in the thermocline to evaporate and condense a fluid in a Rankine power cycle. A thermal energy resource assessment is conducted for waters surrounding Florida to help qualitatively assess the best locations for electrical power production ...
The autonomous localization and tracking of the center of a phytoplankton bloom patch by the Tethys Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is introduced. This capability is motivated by the desire to separate temporal variability from spatial variability in the observation of phytoplankton dynamics. In ...
The manual Quality Control (QC) process undertaken by experts in marine sensor deployments is becoming increasingly impractical as the size of these deployments increase and streaming applications become the norm. Automated quality control procedures have been developed for real-time sensor deployments ...
The concept of Seawater Air Conditioning (SWAC) is thought to have been first conceived by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) at its facility at Keahole Point on the Island of Hawaii in 1983. NELHA was the first location in the United Stated to successfully deploy a deep seawater ...
The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) is the only location in the world today where large volumes of warm, surface seawater and cold, deep seawater are distributed onshore for the development of mariculture enterprises of temperate species in a tropical environment. Due to the insight ...
The Oregon Fishermen in Ocean Observing Research (OrFIOOR) program is a collaboration between Oregon State University researchers and commercial Dungeness crab fishermen in Oregon and Washington which utilizes fishing gear (crab pots) as sensor platforms of opportunity. The program was started in 2005 ...
Quantitative understandings of sediment transport for coastal engineering projects, such as removing and installing underwater cables, installing and operating underwater turbines and disposal of dredged marine sediment (or terrestrial overburden) are one of the key requirements in planning these projects, ...
Real-time image analysis and classification onboard robotic marine vehicles, such as AUVs, is a key step in the realisation of adaptive mission planning for large-scale habitat mapping in previously unexplored environments. This paper describes a novel technique to train, process, and classify images ...
Kona Blue is a leader in innovative mariculture, having pioneered an open ocean fish farm operation off Kona, Hawaii, that has produced up to 500 tons/yr of sashimi-grade Kona Kampachi® (Seriola rivoliana), with no measureable environmental impact beyond the immediate area of the net pens. However, ...
The following topics are dealt with: underwater acoustics and acoustical oceanography; sonar signal/ image processing and communication; ocean observing platforms, systems, and instrumentation; remote sensing; ocean data visualization, modeling, and information management; MARINE environment, oceanography, ...
The comprehensive utilization hydropower project not only plays a role in power generation and flood control, but also has some benefits in navigation, water supply, irrigation, aquaculture, and tourism. Meanwhile, it greatly influences the basin ecological environment. Firstly, quantitative calculation ...
Background and Objective Probiotics are live microbial feed supplements which beneficially affect the host animal by improving its intestinal microbial balance, producing metabolites which inhibit the colonization or growth of other microorganisms or by competing with them for resources such as nutrients ...