MarinEye - A tool for marine monitoring

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2016
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Alfredo Martins
André Dias
Eduardo Silva
Hugo Alexandre Ferreira
Ireneu Dias
José Miguel Almeida
Luís Torgo
Goncalves,M
Maurício Oliveira Guedes
Nuno Dias
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This work presents an autonomous system for marine integrated physical-chemical and biological monitoring - the MarinEye system. It comprises a set of sensors providing diverse and relevant information for oceanic environment characterization and marine biology studies. It is constituted by a physical-chemical water properties sensor suite, a water filtration and sampling system for DNA collection, a plankton imaging system and biomass assessment acoustic system. The MarinEye system has onboard computational and logging capabilities allowing it either for autonomous operation or for integration in other marine observing systems (such as Observatories or robotic vehicles. It was designed in order to collect integrated multi-trophic monitoring data. The validation in operational environment on 3 marine observatories: RAIA, BerlengasWatch and Cascais on the coast of Portugal is also discussed.
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