Development of an autonomous system for integrated marine monitoring
Catarina
M.
Magalhães1*,
Ana Paula
Mucha1,
Maria
F.
Carvalho1,
Hugo
Ribeiro1,
Cristina
M.
Almeida1,
Isabel
Azevedo1,
Sandra
Ramos1,
Teresa
Borges1,
Sérgio
Leandro2,
Antonina
Dos Santos3,
Alexandra
Silva3,
Cátia
Bartilotti3,
Sónia
Cotrim3,
Raquel
Marques3,
Catarina
Churro3,
André
Dias4, 5,
Hugo
Ferreira4,
Ireneu
Dias4,
Luís
Torgo4, 6,
Mariana
Oliveira4, 6,
Nuno
Dias4, 5,
Pedro
Jorge4,
Alfredo
Martins4, 5 and
Eduardo
Silva4, 5
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1
Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Portugal
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2
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL-MARE), Portugal
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3
Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA), Portugal
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4
INESC Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Portugal
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5
School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP), Portugal
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6
Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (FCUP-UP), Portugal
Increasing our understanding of the complex exchange among processes throughout ocean basins is severely limited by the paucity of infrastructures able to support sustained and interactive observations of the biological, chemical, physical, atmospheric and geological processes. Because all these processes interact in the ocean in complex ways, promoting a more fundamental scientific understanding of these relationships requires new and transformational approaches to ocean observation. In this work we are developing an autonomous system for integrated marine chemical, physical and biological monitoring – MarinEye. This system combine high-resolution imaging, acoustic, sonar, fraction filtration systems and sensors in a modular, compact system that can be deployed on fixed and mobile platforms. Thus, the autonomous monitoring system that is being developed combines a range of technologies capable of providing data that gives an integrated view of the different compartments of the ocean (physical, chemical, biological) at different levels of knowledge (from genomics to biogeochemistry and from micro to macro community dynamics) but synchronized in time and space. The capability to simultaneously monitor biological, chemical and physical data provides the ability to answer questions about how organisms interact with their environment and with each other, and how these interactions influence the overall ecosystem stability. MarinEye also includes a centralized data base infra-structure that will aggregate all the diverse data sources (physical, chemical, biological) collected by the different modules. This data base feeds a platform of data visualization and summarization that can provide synthetic summaries of the main events of the system in order to simplify data analysis. Moreover, the platform also implements several modelling tools that have as main goal to uncover unsuspected and useful patterns that may exist on the physico-chemical and biological data sets generated. This device will increase oceanic knowledge, complementing the already existent ocean observatories by providing novel integrative data not currently supplied. Marineye will give an extremely important contribution for the consolidation of infrastructures dedicated to the observation of the marine environment.
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the financial support from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants (PT02_Aviso4_0017). This research was partially supported by the Strategic Funding UID/Multi/04423/2013 through national funds provided by FCT and ERDF, in the framework of the program PT2020. This research was partially supported by the Structured Program of R&D&I CORAL - NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000036, funded by the NORTE2020 through ERDF.
Keywords:
Ocean observation,
multitrophic interactions,
microbiomes,
autonomous monitoring,
Bio-sampler
Conference:
XIX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies, Porto, Portugal, 5 Sep - 9 Sep, 2016.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
1. ECOLOGY, BIODIVERSITY AND VULNERABLE ECOSYSTEMS
Citation:
Magalhães
CM,
Mucha
A,
Carvalho
MF,
Ribeiro
H,
Almeida
CM,
Azevedo
I,
Ramos
S,
Borges
T,
Leandro
S,
Dos Santos
A,
Silva
A,
Bartilotti
C,
Cotrim
S,
Marques
R,
Churro
C,
Dias
A,
Ferreira
H,
Dias
I,
Torgo
L,
Oliveira
M,
Dias
N,
Jorge
P,
Martins
A and
Silva
E
(2016). Development of an autonomous system for integrated marine monitoring.
Front. Mar. Sci.
Conference Abstract:
XIX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies.
doi: 10.3389/conf.FMARS.2016.05.00006
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Received:
29 Jun 2016;
Published Online:
02 Sep 2016.
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Correspondence:
Dr. Catarina M Magalhães, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Porto, Portugal, cmagalhaes@ciimar.up.pt