Plan of Action (II)
4.- Research lines (R+D+i) Remote Sensing Marine Biosciences Marine geosciences Technological Developing Engineering
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences Information and Communication Technologies applied to Marine Biosciences (ICT-Biosciences) ● Biological Oceanography: Instruments and methods to characterize biological and physical processes at small scale ● Marine Resources: Automatic classification methods based on shape analysis. ● Observational systems: Participation on the first Spanish underwater cabled observatory (OBSEA project)
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences Information and Communication Technologies applied to Marine Biosciences (ICT-Biosciences) ICT Biosciences Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) ● Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development (CD6). ● Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Group. ● Centre of Remote Acquisition and Data processing Systems (SARTI) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ● Institute of Industrial Automation (IAI). ● Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ● Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography (ICM) ● Physical-Biological interactions at small scale (microstructure) ● Photobiology ● Department of Renewable Resources (ICM) ● Automatic recognition (otoliths) Technological Research Marine Biosciences
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences Water cells turbulent exchange Matrix expression (Transilient Matrix) Profiling measurements NEW METHOD : Transilient matrix estimation based on high resolution CTD data Piera et al 2002, Piera et al Physical-Biological interactions: characterization of turbulence
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences Physical-Biological interactions: identification of phytoplankton groups using high resolution fluorescence spectra
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences Piera et al 2005, Parisi et al 2005, Lombarte et al Natural resources: otolith data base & automatic identification ? AFORO website ( ● open online catalogue of otolith images (nearly 700 species) ● shape analysis through pattern recognition techniques ● search and identify directly using query images of otholits
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences Ongoing National projects ● ANERIS. Analysis and Development of an intelligent oceanographic profiler with autonomous sampling system. Budget: 352,000 €. (UTM, ICM, IAI, IIIA) New autonomous profiler for water sampling. Including artificial intelligence methods for instrumentation design ● SUMMER. Surface Mixing Modulation of the Exposure to solar Radiation. Budget: 292,000 €. (ICM, UTM) New instrument referenced as SUMMIT (Surface Mixing Mimicking Incubation Technology) ● OBSEA Preliminary Prototype of Underwater Cabled Observatory. Budget: 150,000 €. (UTM, UPC) First coastal permanent underwater observatory in Spain.
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences Profile data (during exploration phase) Depth selection (expected values) Adaptive sampling (changes during upward profiling depth 123 upward downward EXPLORATION WATER SAMPLING ANERIS
4.- Research lines. ICT-Biosciences ANERIS ANERIS sensor module development (UTM Electronic Lab)